Several people intervened after the suspect began stabbing people in the German capital’s Charlottenburg neighborhood, a Berlin newspaper said.
Several people were wounded in a suspected knife attack in western Berlin, police in Germany’s capital said Tuesday.
A man attacked several people on a street in the western district of Charlottenburg, a police spokeswoman said.
The police suspect that the attack was carried out with a knife.
Emergency services were alerted shortly before 12 p.m. local time (11:00 UTC/GMT).
Two people were hospitalized and the suspect was arrested.
But police said they could not yet say how many people were injured.
The Berliner Zeitung reported that several passers-by pounced on the attacker and overpowered him until the police arrived. The paper described how the suspect “stabbed wildly.”
There is no immediate evidence of a terrorist-motivated attack, the newspaper reported, adding that the suspect is believed to have mental health issues.
The police have yet to confirm these reports.
The police spokeswoman said the investigation is still in its early stages.
Germany remains on alert after a deadly Christmas market attack earlier this month that killed five people and injured more than 200 others in the eastern city of Magdeburg.
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