Police are conducting a 'major operation' in the area of the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences where 'several people were injured with a knife', they wrote on Twitter, asking people to avoid the area.
BERLIN - Four people were injured in a knife attack on a university campus in Germany on Friday, police said, adding that the perpetrator has been detained.
Police are conducting a "major operation" in the area of the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences where "several people were injured with a knife", they wrote on Twitter, asking people to avoid the area.According to the WDR broadcaster, the perpetrator was a young man from Hamm who attacked several students with a knife inside a seminar building.
Three women and one man were injured, WDR said, before other students managed to restrain the attacker. A bloodstain was visible on the ground outside one campus building, the Westfaelische Anzeiger reported. In a separate incident on Friday, a woman and a seven-year-old girl were seriously injured in a knife attack at an elementary school in Esslingen, near Stuttgart.An 18-year-old student opened fire in a lecture hall at Heidelberg University in southwestern Germany, killing a young woman and injuring three others before fleeing the scene and turning the weapon on himself.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
German airline Lufthansa is cancelling 900 flights in July because of staff shortages | BusinessinsiderLufthansa is joining other airlines including Delta, JetBlue, Alaska, and British Airways that have cut their summer schedules amid soaring demand.
Read more »
Sars' bright idea gets tons of seized clothes, blankets to flood victims in four provincesSars says it conceived the idea to make the seized clothing, blankets and footwear available for relief efforts. Such items are usually destroyed.
Read more »
‘Twenty-four-year-olds are too old for matric’ and mustn’t be ‘schooled to death’Instead, they should finish school at adult education facilities where they could benefit from other upskilling
Read more »
Sars' bright idea gets tons of seized clothes, blankets to flood victims in four provincesSars says it conceived the idea to make the seized clothing, blankets and footwear available for relief efforts. Such items are usually destroyed.
Read more »
‘Twenty-four-year-olds are too old for matric’ and mustn’t be ‘schooled to death’Instead, they should finish school at adult education facilities where they could benefit from other upskilling
Read more »