A major police investigation is underway after an African foreign national rampaged through Würzburg, a city of about 130,000 people in Bavaria, located between Munich and Frankfurt last night, murdering three people and injuring five in a savage knife attack.
Videos on social media show an armed man walking barefoot through the centre of Würzburg, carrying a “long weapon”.
Police in the city of Wuerzburg have identified the suspect of the multiple murders as a 24-year-old Somali man.
He was wounded by a police bullet but his injuries are not life-threatening.
Police spokeswoman Kerstin Kunick said officers were alerted at around 17:00 CEST on Friday to a knife attack on Barbarossa Square in the city centre reports Euronews.
The attacker was in psychiatric treatment before the attack and had been known to police, Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said.
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