Individuals had been killed and injured in an assault on Friday at a competition within the metropolis of Solingen in western Germany, the information company dpa reported. It wasn’t instantly clear what number of casualties there have been.
The native Solinger Tageblatt newspaper reported that authorities referred to as on folks to go away downtown Solingen and that one of many competition organisers, Philipp Müller, stated on a stage that emergency staff had been preventing for the lives of 9 folks.
The dpa report cited unidentified police sources as saying the weapon was believed to be a knife and nobody had but been arrested. The assault occurred on a central sq., the Fronhof.
The competition marking town’s 650th anniversary started on Friday and was presupposed to run by way of Sunday.
Solingen has about 160,000 inhabitants and is situated close to the larger cities of Cologne and Duesseldorf.
