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Tragic Knife Attack in Solingen: 3 Dead, 8 Injured
SOLINGEN, Germany – The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Saturday for a knife attack in the German city of Solingen that killed three people and wounded eight others.
Describing the man who carried out the attack as a "soldier of the Islamic State," the militant group said in a statement on its Telegram account: "He carried out the attack in revenge for Muslims in Palestine and everywhere."
It did not immediately provide any evidence for its assertion and it was not clear how close any relationship between the attacker and Islamic State was.
A man suspected of carrying out the rampage was taken into police custody, a state official told German television on Saturday, some 24 hours after the attack.
North Rhine-Westphalia's interior minister Herbert Reul told the ARD broadcaster that he was "a bit relieved" after authorities spent the day following a "hot lead" that lead to the arrest.
Police spent the day conducting a manhunt, making two arrests that were likely not the perpetrator, Reul said.
"The real suspect is the one that we’ve arrested just now," he said. The individual is being questioned and evidence was seized, he said.
Reul said the man was affiliated with a home for refugees that had been searched earlier in the day.
Hendrik Wuest, premier of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, described Friday evening's attack during a festival in the city as an act of terror.
Police were conducting a manhunt for the assailant. They said they had detained a 15-year-old and were investigating whether this person was linked to the attacker.
"This attack has struck at the heart of our country," Wuest told reporters.
Interior minister Nancy Faeser said authorities were doing all they could to catch the assailant.
The attack took place in the Fronhof, a market square in the western German city where live bands were playing as part of a festival marking the its 650th anniversary.
Markus Caspers, an official with the public prosecutor’s office in Duesseldorf, said authorities were treating the attack as a possible terrorist incident because there was no other known motive and the victims seemed unrelated.
A police official, Thorsten Fleiss, said the assailant appeared to aim for his victims' throats.
"The perpetrator must be quickly caught and punished to the fullest extent of the law," Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a post on X.
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