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| An individual was injured during a knife attack outside Dusseldorf airport’s departures terminal on Tuesday, and the assailant is on the run, according to the country’s police force. | |
| The stabbing occurred at a ticket machine in the car park of Dusseldorf’s airport, according to Andre Hartwich, a spokesperson for the city’s police. The victim is being transported to hospital for treatment. | The stabbing occurred at a ticket machine in the car park of Dusseldorf’s airport, according to Andre Hartwich, a spokesperson for the city’s police. The victim is being transported to hospital for treatment. |
| Authorities haven’t yet identified the assailant's motive but believe it could be due to a territorial dispute between homeless individuals, stating that “the names of both people are known to us.” | |
| Seeking to reassure the public, Hartwich stated that the individuals involved are not believed to pose a risk to passengers or flights at the airport. | |
| According to authorities, CCTV cameras captured the two men involved heading towards the airport parking area at 12:16pm local time (10:16am GMT), when the stabbing occurred. | |
| This is the latest stabbing in a spate that has plagued Germany. On June 28, a 32-year-old man stabbed two individuals in Erfurt, causing serious injuries, before fleeing the scene. He was later detained, after police used a helicopter and sniffer dogs to track him down. Days earlier, on June 25, a mass stabbing left three dead and 10 injured in the southern town of Wurzburg before police stopped the attacker with a non-fatal shot to the leg. Authorities have not suggested the attacks were linked or a factor in the incident at Dusseldorf airport. | |
| Dusseldorf is Germany’s third-largest airport, behind Frankfurt and Munich, with more than 25 million passengers passing through its doors per year. German air carrier Eurowings is headquartered at the facility, with it providing a base for a number of other airlines, which use its three terminals and two runways. | |
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