“Regardless of all efforts by the medical doctors she died there,” police mentioned in an announcement. The youthful woman stays within the hospital with severe however not life-threatening accidents, they mentioned. Each victims had German citizenship.
A 27-year-old man was arrested by officers inside a refugee shelter close to the scene of the assault. The person, who was discovered with accidents and a knife, is of Eritrean origin, police mentioned. Two different males additionally have been detained.
Investigators have been attempting to find out a motive for the assault and whether or not the suspect and the ladies knew one another earlier than it occurred.
Germany’s prime safety official expressed shock on the assault.
“I grieve with the woman who was killed and hope fervently that the injured recovers her well being,” Inside Minister Nanct Faeser mentioned on Twitter. “My ideas are with their households at the moment.”
Of their assertion, police urged folks to chorus from stoking suspicion in opposition to refugees, asylum-seekers and different foreigners.