Germany: Suspected knife attack on bus leaves 14 injured

The suspect has been caught. The police said, there was a major police deployment underway in the city of Luebeck.

By: Reuters | Berlin | Updated: July 20, 2018 7:33:17 pm
Germany: Suspected knife attack on bus leaves 14 injured The suspect has been caught. (Representational Image)

At least 14 people were wounded, two of them seriously, in a suspected knife attack on a bus in the northern German city of Luebeck on Friday, the local Luebecker Nachrichten newspaper reported, adding that the suspect had been caught. A police spokesman told regional broadcaster NDR that nobody had been injured in the attack.

Earlier, police in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, where Luebeck is located, tweeted that there was a major police deployment underway in the city.

“We are examining the situation and will give more information later,” the tweet said. Luebeck police were not immediately available for comment.