The ‘Bild’ newspaper only spoke of “several” dead people. After the night, three people were confirmed dead.
Three people have died and several have been injured in a knife attack at a festival in the western city of Solingen Germany. According to the newspaper ‘Bild’, a man stabbed passers-by at random and added that “several” people had died. The attack occurred in a central square, Fronhof.
Local newspaper Solinger Tageblatt reported that authorities had asked people to leave the city center and that one of the festival organizers, Philipp Müller, said on stage that Emergency crews were fighting for the lives of nine people.
A report by the German news agency dpa cited unnamed police sources as saying that the weapon was a knife and that no one had yet been arrested. ‘Bild’ cited witnesses who stated that the author was still free. Finally Emergency services were unable to save the lives of three people and six, with stab wounds, have managed to survive.
The festival that commemorates the 650th anniversary of the city It began on Friday and was to last until Sunday. Solingen has about 160,000 inhabitants and is located near the large cities of Colonia y Düsseldorf.
