Hamburg police are reporting that one person has been killed and four injured in a knife attack in a Hamburg grocery store. Bystanders chased down the assailant and tackled him before police arrived on the scene.
One man was killed and six people were injured in a stabbing attack in a supermarket in Hamburg on Friday, police said.
A 52-year-old German man was stabbed to death in an Edeka Supermarket. A 50-year-old woman and four men aged 64, 57, 56 and 19 suffered stabbing injuries. A 35-year-old man was injured while tackling the attacker, police said.
Police spokesperson Timo Zill said a kitchen knife was used in the stabbing, which he described as “indiscriminate” and “totally unexpected.”
Police identified the attacker as a 26-year-old man born in the United Arab Emirates, but his citizenship was unclear.
An unconfirmed video widely shared on social media showed a group of people wielding chairs trying to subdue a man armed with a large kitchen knife.
The police said they did not yet know the reason behind the attack, but they announced that the homicide squad had taken over the investigation and would be looking into all possible motives.
