Suspect on the run, several dead in mass stabbing in Germany

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German police said on Saturday that they were still searching for an unknown assailant hours after he killed three people and wounded others in a stabbing attack at a festival in the western city of Solingen. - REUTERS

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00:00At least three people were killed, and several others were badly wounded in a mass stabbing

00:06in Germany on Friday.

00:09Police searched the scene of the attack in Solingen, a city in western Germany.

00:13They believe the suspect, a single, unidentified man, carried out the act on his own, and he

00:19was still at large.

00:20A police spokesperson appealed for witnesses to come forward.

00:24Today's attack came during a festival celebrating the town's 650th anniversary at a market square

00:30where live bands were playing.

00:33The state's interior minister, Herbert Rohr, told reporters at the scene it was a targeted

00:37attack on human life, but declined to speculate on the motive.

00:41Fatal stabbings and shootings are uncommon in Germany, but the government wants tougher

00:46laws on carrying knives in public and banning longer blades.

00:50In June 2024, a 29-year-old policeman died after he was stabbed during an attack on a

00:57right-wing demonstration in Mannheim.

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