At least three people were killed and five people were injured seriously after an unknown man attacked people with a knife at a festival in the western German city of Solingen.
According to the media reports, witnesses alerted the police after 9:30 pm saying that an unknown perpetrator wounded several people with a knife on a central square. The stabbings were carried out by one man only. Herbert Reul, the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia instructed police to investigate the matter.
He further said that the cause behind the incident is yet to be identified. Reul said, ‘None of us knows why the attack took place’. He further added, ‘I can’t say anything about the motive now and it is not clear who the assailant was. He also informed that the attacker had left the scene’.
Meanwhile, one of the festival organizers, Philipp Muller appeared on the stage after the incident took place and asked the attendees to go calmly’.
According to the media reports, the man hasn’t been caught yet.
On Friday, the ‘Festival of Diversity’ marked the city’s 650th anniversary and was supposed to run through Sunday, with many stages in central streets offering attractions such as live music, cabaret and acrobatics’.
The city cancelled the rest of the festival after the attack. Solingen has about 160,000 residents and is located near the biggest cities of Colgne and Duesseldorf.
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