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| A man was arrested after injuring five people with an axe at Düsseldorf’s main train station on Thursday night, police have said. | A man was arrested after injuring five people with an axe at Düsseldorf’s main train station on Thursday night, police have said. |
| A spokeswoman for Düsseldorf police, Anja Kynast, told the Associated Press that the man arrested had also been injured. She was unable to say how serious any of the injuries were. | A spokeswoman for Düsseldorf police, Anja Kynast, told the Associated Press that the man arrested had also been injured. She was unable to say how serious any of the injuries were. |
| Earlier, a spokesman for federal police, who are usually in charge of policing train stations, had said two people were arrested and further attackers might be on the run. This was later corrected by police who confirmed only one arrest. | Earlier, a spokesman for federal police, who are usually in charge of policing train stations, had said two people were arrested and further attackers might be on the run. This was later corrected by police who confirmed only one arrest. |
| Police said there was so far no indication of a terrorist motive behind the attack. | |
| Kynast said officers were searching the station and its surroundings, but that they did not have concrete information about any further attackers. | Kynast said officers were searching the station and its surroundings, but that they did not have concrete information about any further attackers. |
| Police reported that a man entered the overground number 28 railway line of the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn network on Thursday at about 8.50pm local time and started to attack passengers, later attacking passersby on a platform. | |
| After fleeing across the tracks, the man jumped off a railway bridge, reportedly sustaining injuries. He was arrested soon afterwards, still carrying a weapon. | |
| The local newspaper Rheinische Post quoted one witness, Tobias Schneeberger, 30, who said the assailant had got off the S28 overground at the station and run up and down the platform carrying a weapon, described in various reports as an axe. Other reports described the weapon as a hatchet. | |
| Schneeberger said the man had been between 30 and 40 years old, and looked “like a drug addict”. He said the attacker had looked “like a German”. | |
| Another witness told Bild newspaper: “I saw the man. There was blood on the floor, I think I saw two bodies on the tracks.” She described the attacker as a man approximately 30 years old, of “southern” appearance. |