Eighteen injured in knife attacks as a woman arrested

Several people suffered life -threatening injuries in a knife attack at the main train station in the German city of Hamburg.

The Hamburger police said 18 People were injured on Friday around 6:00 p.m. in the central station of the Northern City around 6:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. GMT).

The officials arrested a 39-year-old German woman at the scene when they carried out great operation.

The woman remains in police custody and is said to appear in court on Saturday.

In a post on X, the Hamburg police said several people who were injured had suffered life -threatening injuries.

The police spoke to the press outside the station and said that the suspect had acted alone and had no “political motive”.

Rather, they believe that it could have been “in a state of intellectual stress”, Florian Abbenseth, a police spokesman, told reporters.

The police later added that their murder department examined the incident and the motifs of the suspect.

The attack occurred between platforms 13 and 14 – which are accessible via a busy main street, while a train was on one of the rail materials.

According to reports, some of the victims were treated on trains.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that the attack was “shocking” and thanked the emergency services on site for “their quick support”.

Deutsche Bahn, the German rail operator, said four train station at the train station were closed and some services would experience delays and diversions.

Pictures from the scene show a number of emergency staff and vehicles on site as well as obstacles that seem to hide the injured from a public perspective.

A photo used by German media shows that a man of paramedics is taken away on a stretcher.

A video on social media seems to show the suspect that the hands behind their backs of civil servants who put them in a police vehicle are accompanied from the station platform.

The Hamburg central station is one of the most busy transport centers in Germany with more than 550,000 travelers a day. It is often overcrowded during rush hour on Friday.

This is the latest in a number of violent attacks in Germany in recent months.

In January, a two-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man were killed in a stab in a park in Aschaffenburg, with several others being injured.

Just a month later, a Spanish tourist was stabbed in the Holocaust monument in Berlin.

In December in December, six people were killed and hundreds were injured after a car had driven into a crowd at a Christmas market in the eastern town of Magdeburg.

The suspects in these previous attacks were migrants who prompted Germany to tighten the border control controls and to intensify immigration during the national elections of the country in February on a central topic for voters.