Police hunted on Saturday for an unknown assailant hours after he killed three people and wounded others in a stabbing attack at a festival in the western German city of Solingen, Reuters reports.
Eight were injured, five of them seriously, the police said in a statement early on Saturday. That was up from the four serious injuries the police reported earlier.
“Both victims and witnesses are currently being questioned. The police are currently searching for the perpetrator with a large team,” police said.
The incident occurred around 9:40 p.m. (1940 GMT) on Friday, when the man attacked multiple people with a knife, the police said.
The perpetrator aimed specifically for people’s throats, the police added. They could not provide further details or a motive.
“Our security authorities are doing everything they can to catch the perpetrator and investigate the background of the attack,” Germany’s interior minister, Nancy Faeser, said in a post on X.
