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AFP
BERLIN
NINE people were injured Friday in an attack by a man wielding a knife on a bus in northern Germany, officials said on Friday, although his motive remained unclear.
The packed bus was heading in the direction of Travemuende, a popular beach destination close to the city of Luebeck, when a man pulled the weapon on passengers, Luebeck chief prosecutor Ulla Hingst said.
Regional interior minister for Schleswig-Holstein state, Hans-Joachim Grote, said six people suffered knife wounds and three others different injuries, while the attacker also punched the bus driver.
"Luckily no-one was killed,"Hingst said."The background to the act as well as exactly how it happened are completely unclear and the objects of our probe."
The bus driver had immediately stopped the vehicle, allowing passengers to escape.
"The passengers jumped out of the bus and were screaming. It was terrible. Then the injured were brought out. The perpetrator had a kitchen knife,"a witness who lives close to the scene, Lothar H, told local daily Luebecker Nachrichten.
A female passenger on the bus said one of those injured had only just given up his seat to an elderly woman,"when the perpetrator stabbed him in the chest."
