No less than 12 injured in knife assault at Hamburg railway station

Law enforcement officials and forensic consultants work at Hamburg’s most important railway station after a number of individuals had been injured in a knife assault in Hamburg, Germany on Could 23, 2025.
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Germany police on Friday (Could 23, 2025) stated they’d arrested a girl after at the very least 12 individuals had been injured in a knife assault on the most important station within the northern metropolis of Hamburg.

Round 6.30 p.m. (9.30 p.m. IST), Hamburg police stated on X they had been finishing up a significant operation on the most important prepare station in Germany’s second-largest metropolis.

“An individual injured a number of individuals with a knife on the most important prepare station” and a suspect had been arrested, they stated.

The suspect, police subsequently stated, was a 39-year-old lady who was thought to have “acted alone”.

Investigations into the incident had been “operating at full velocity”, police stated, with out giving a sign of a doable motive.

A spokesman for the Hamburg fireplace division advised AFP that 12 individuals had been injured within the knife assault. Amongst them had been “six individuals with life-threatening accidents”, the spokesman stated. German media nonetheless reported the variety of individuals with very extreme accidents was decrease.

Safety considerations

The assault occurred in the midst of rush hour on the finish of the working week, in response to German media.

The suspect was thought to have carried out the assault “in opposition to passengers” on the station, a spokeswoman for the Hanover federal police directorate, which additionally covers Hamburg, advised AFP.

Photographs of the scene confirmed entry to the platforms at one finish of the station blocked off by police and folks being loaded into ready ambulances.

Among the victims within the assault had been being handled onboard ready trains within the station, Bild reported.

German rail operator Deutsche Bahn stated on X that 4 platforms on the station had been closed.

The incident would result in “delays and diversions in long-distance companies”, Deutsche Bahn stated in a put up on X.

Germany has been rocked in latest months by a collection of violent assaults with typically jihadist or far-right extremist motivations which have put safety on the prime of the agenda.

The newest, on Sunday (Could 18, 2025), noticed 4 individuals had been injured in a stabbing at a bar within the metropolis of Bielefeld.

The investigation into the assault had been handed over to federal prosecutors after the Syrian suspect within the assault advised the law enforcement officials who arrested him that he had jihadist beliefs.

The query of safety — and the immigrant origin of lots of the attackers — was a significant subject throughout Germany’s latest election marketing campaign.

The vote on the finish of February 2025 noticed the conservative CDU/CSU prime the polls and a file rating of over 20% for the far-right, anti-immigration Different for Germany.