A number of injured in knife assault in Berlin, suspect in custody

A number of folks had been injured, together with two hospitalised, in a random knife assault in western Berlin on New Yr’s Eve, German police reported. The incident occurred on 31 December 2024, Tuesday, round 11:50 a.m., outdoors a grocery store in Charlottenburg, a usually quiet district of the capital, Xinhua information company reported, quoting German newspaper Bild.

Witnesses mentioned the assailant stabbed indiscriminately earlier than a number of passers-by intervened and subdued him. Emergency companies responded shortly after, and the suspect was taken into police custody. German information company dpa reported that there’s at the moment no indication of a terrorist motive behind the assault. Emergency companies had been alerted shortly earlier than 12:00 p.m. native time (11:00 UTC/GMT), police mentioned.

Based on the experiences, the assault started inside a grocery store on the nook of Quedlinburger Strasse and Sommeringstrasse. Police mentioned the knifeman then moved outdoors to the sidewalk near a close-by resort. The suspect, a Syrian nationwide who lives in Sweden, is alleged to have stabbed his victims with a knife he stole from the grocery store, police mentioned in an announcement.