A person stabbed and wounded a number of folks on a prepare in northern Germany earlier than police detained him, and two of the victims died, German information company dpa has reported.

Germany’s Federal Police pressure stated the person used a knife to assault a number of passengers shortly earlier than the regional prepare travelling from Kiel to Hamburg arrived on the Brokstedt station.

An preliminary investigation indicated seven folks had been wounded, the police company stated.

Dpa later quoted the inside minister of Schleswig-Holstein state, Sabine Suetterlin-Waack, as saying two folks had been killed and 5 had been wounded within the assault, which occurred at about 3pm native time.

The prepare station in Brokstedt was closed for a number of hours, the information company stated.

Police didn’t give dpa any info on the suspect’s id and stated his doable motives had been underneath investigation.

The related police businesses couldn’t be instantly reached on Wednesday.