- Four people injured in a knife attack on a university campus in Germany.
- Three women and one man were injured.
- A bloodstain was visible on the ground outside one campus building.
Four people were injured in a knife attack on a university campus in Germany on Friday, According to police, and the perpetrator has been apprehended.
Police are conducting a “major operation” near the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, where “several people were injured with a knife,” according to a tweet from the department, advising people to avoid the area.
A police spokesman told AFP four people had been injured but could not say how badly.
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According to the WDR broadcaster, the perpetrator was a young man from Hamm who attacked several students with a knife inside a seminar building.
Three women and one man were injured, WDR said, before other students managed to restrain the attacker.
A bloodstain was visible on the ground outside one campus building, the Westfaelische Anzeiger reported.
In a separate incident on Friday, a woman and a seven-year-old girl were seriously injured in a knife attack at an elementary school in Esslingen, near Stuttgart.
A rare shooting on a university campus also shocked Germany earlier this year.
An 18-year-old student opened fire in a lecture hall at Heidelberg University in southwestern Germany, killing one student and injuring three others before fleeing and turning the weapon on himself.
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