Six people injured, city festival continues

Win – After a knife attack in a bus I am North Rhine-Westphalian Siegen determines the police further.

Yesterday, Friday, a special bus was supposed to take more than 40 passengers to a city festival when a woman suddenly stabbed people with a knife. At least six people were injured – three of them critically.

According to the police, a 32-year-old suspect was arrested shortly afterwards. “This crime has left us all absolutely shocked,” said Siegen Mayor Steffen Mues in a statement.

The city festival is still scheduled to go ahead this Saturday. According to the city, the organizers are basing their decision on the “police findings of the situation.” According to the police, there is currently no further danger.

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Two of the six injured people had already been released from hospital during the night. A woman also discharged herself, a police spokesman told the German Press Agency. The spokesman initially declined to comment on the exact condition of the injured person. According to police, they were between 16 and 30 years old and all come from the Siegen-Wittgenstein district.

According to police, 36 passengers were cared for in a hall during the night. Emergency chaplains, firefighters and police were on site. The people who were on the bus at the time of the attack are being questioned.

There were also relatives in the hall. According to the police, there were over 40 adults on the bus, as well as two or three children who had been picked up by their mother.

Despite the attack, the city of Siegen did not want to cancel its city festival. It will continue on Saturday at 11 a.m. with an ecumenical service on the castle square, it said in a statement overnight.

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Mayor Mues spoke to eyewitnesses on site after the incident in Siegen and thanked the first responders, emergency services and emergency chaplains, it said.

The Bundestag member for Siegen-Wittgenstein, Laura Kraft (33, Green Party), also wished the injured man on Platform X a “speedy recovery and the relatives and those affected a lot of strength in these hours.” This incident cast a “shadow over the celebrations” in Siegen.

“We are securing evidence at the crime scene and questioning witnesses,” said a police spokesman on Saturday night. The background to the crime and the exact sequence of events were initially unclear. However, the 32-year-old is known to the police.

According to dpa information, there are indications that the woman was mentally ill. The police have so far “no evidence of a political or religious motive.” The investigation is ongoing.

The act brings back memories of the attack in Solingen on Friday a week ago. On Friday evening, a man randomly stabbed bystanders for the first time at an anniversary celebration to mark the 650th anniversary of the founding of the city of Solingen.

He then escaped in the tumult and initial panic. Two men, aged 67 and 56, and a 56-year-old woman died. Eight people were injured, four of them seriously. The suspected perpetrator is in custody.