Seventeen were injured in a knife attack with the arrest of a woman

Police said that many people have had injuries threatening his life in a knife attack at the main railway station in Hamburg, Germany.

The city’s extinguishing department said 17 People were injured in the attack, while the police said they had not yet had a valid number for the number of victims.

Hamburg police said that the officers arrested a 39 -year -old German woman at the scene while they were carrying out a major operation.

The attack at the Central City Station took place at approximately 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT) on Friday.

A spokesman for the Hamburg Fire Department told News Agency to Agence France Presse 17 people were injured and some injuries were threatening.

In a post on X, Hamburg Police said that many people who were injured were wounded.

Speaking to the press outside the station, the police said she believed that the suspect had acted alone and had no “political motive.”

Instead, they believe that it may have been “in a state of mental distress,” said Florian Abinsith, police spokesman, to reporters.

The attack occurred between platforms 13 and 14 – which can be accessed via a crowded main road – while the train was on one of the platforms.

Some victims were dealt with inside the trains, according to reports.

German counselor Friedrich Mirz said the attack was “shocking” and thanked the emergency services on the ground for “their quick help.”

The German railway operator, Deutsche, said that four platforms at the station are closed and that some services will witness delay and transfers.

Pictures of the scene show a number of emergency service and vehicles on the ground, and the barriers that seem to hide the injured from the general show.

One of the photos used by the German media shows a man captured by paramedics on a mobile.

It seems that a video on social media shows the suspect with her hands behind her back, which comes out of the station platform by the officers who put it in a police car.

Hamburg Central Station is one of the busiest transportation centers in Germany, with more than 550,000 passengers per day, according to its website. It is often crowded during the peak hour on Friday.

This is the latest in a series of violent attacks in Germany in recent months.

In January, there was a two -year -old boy and a 41 -year -old man He was killed in stabbing in a garden in AshoufurgWith the injury of many others.

He was a Spanish tourist Just one month later in the Holocaust installation in Berlin.

Last December, six people were killed and hundreds were injured A car traveled to a crowd of people in the Christmas market In the eastern city of Magdburg.

The suspects in these previous attacks were the immigrants who led Germany to tighten border verification operations He saw immigration becomes a major issue for voters during the federal elections in the country in February.