After a knife attack on an ICE between Regensburg and Nuremberg, police are still reluctant to provide detailed information about the culprit and the injured. A spokesman for the Upper Palatinate Police Headquarters said Saturday: “The culprit has been arrested. There is no evidence that there are other culprits.
According to its own reports, the Bavarian Red Cross “took care of three seriously injured people on site and took them to clinics”. A spokesman said Saturday afternoon that about 200 to 300 passengers who had been evacuated from the train were currently being cared for in a hall near the Seiberstorf train station in the Newmark district of Upper Palatinate. 110 Red Cross forces are on site, caring for traumatized people, including trauma intervention teams. The Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation had previously reported on this.
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State and federal police spokesmen did not want to divulge any details about the person arrested when asked by the dpa. The “Built” newspaper reported that he “must be psychologically abnormal” and called for help on the train.
Union Home Minister Horst Seehofer expressed his dismay and called on everyone to be prudent. “The gruesome knife attack at ICE was horrific,” ministry spokesman Steve Alder was quoted as saying on Twitter on Saturday. Seahofer hopes that those who have been injured and those who have witnessed this act will recover quickly and completely.
Seahofer, who will remain in office until the new government is formed, thanked the police and the railways for their “courageous efforts.” The CSU politician said the background of the horrific act was not yet clear and needed to be clarified. “Only then will the assessment be possible.”
The railway line between Nuremberg and Regensburg is currently closed. Can’t predict when the blockade will be lifted, Deutsche Bahn announced on Twitter. “There are delays,” it said. The Railways had earlier announced that long distance trains would be waiting at suitable stations or they would be diverted. (dpa, AFP)
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