Five people were wounded in a knife attack on a bus in Germany. (Kevin Kobs/Getty Images)
A woman stabbed and wounded five people in a bus in western
Germany on Friday, police said, one week after a deadly knife attack that shook
the country.
The 32-year-old suspect was arrested after the incident in
the town of Siegen with no indications it was a terrorist attack, the local
police force said in a statement.
Three of the five victims are in life-threatening condition;
one is seriously wounded, and the fifth is only lightly injured.
Germany was rocked by a stabbing attack one week ago that
left three people dead and eight wounded in the western city of Solingen.
The identity of the suspected attacker, a 26-year-old Syrian
man who was previously due for deportation to Bulgaria, stoked debate about
Germany’s immigration and asylum policies.
READ | German festival stabbing: Authorities say suspect is Syrian man who turned himself in and confessed
The killings have prompted Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s
government to announce new restrictions on carrying knives at public gatherings
and on long-distance transport, as well as curbing benefits for some illegal
migrants.
On Tuesday, police shot dead a man suspected of attacking
passers-by with knives in the western town of Moers near Solingen.
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