Six people sustained severe injuries in the attack at Hamburg’s main station, according to reports. A major police operation is underway.

Police in the northern German city of Hamburg were responding to reports of a knife attack at the main train station on Friday evening.

Hamburg police confirmed that “several people” were injured “with a knife” and that the suspect has been apprehended.

What do we know about the incident?

Police have said that a “major operation” was taking place at Hamburg’s main train station.

Three of the injured were in critical condition, while three others were seriously injured, Bild and the Hamburger Morgen Post said.

A woman has reportedly been arrested.

Some of the injured were being treated on board trains at the station, Bild reported.

Germany’s rail operator Deutsche Bahn has said train services to the station were disrupted by the police operation, warning of “delays and partial cancellations.”

Third knife attack in Germany this week

The incident is the latest stabbing in Germany in the past week.

Five people in their 20s were injured, four of them seriously, when a Syrian-born man attacked them in the early hours of Sunday morning at a bar in the western city of Bielefeld.

The 35-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged with four counts of attempted murder.

Federal prosecutors have taken over that investigation saying they believe the incident “was religiously motivated and is to be understood as an attack on the free democratic basic order.”

In Berlin, meanwhile, a boy, 13, was arrested on Friday after he allegedly stabbed a fellow 12-year-old pupil the day before at a school in the city’s Spandau district.

More to follow…

Edited by: Alex Berry

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