The attack occurred during a festival in the German city of Solingen.
Three people have been killed and at least four seriously wounded in a knife attack at a festival in the western German city of Solingen. Witnesses alerted police shortly after 9.30pm on Friday local time to an unknown perpetrator having wounded several people with a knife on a central square, the Fronhof. Police said the perpetrator was on the run, and they so far had only very thin information on the assailant.
Mayor Tim Kurzbach said in a Facebook post: "This evening, we in Solingen are all in shock. We all wanted to celebrate our city's anniversary together and now have dead and wounded to lament." "It breaks my heart that an attack on our city happened," he added. The local newspaper Solinger Tageblatt quoted Celine Derikartz, its reporter covering the festival, as saying that "the atmosphere is spooky".
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