Germany knife attack victims were all women -police


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  • Saturday, 26 Jun 2021

Police secures the area in the German town of Wuerzburg Germany June 25 2021 during a quotmajor operationquot in which police arrested a suspect after local media had earlier reported multiple stabbings.      REUTERSHeiko Becker

Police secures the area in the German town of Wuerzburg, Germany, June 25, 2021, during a "major operation" in which police arrested a suspect after local media had earlier reported multiple stabbings. REUTERS/Heiko Becker

WUERZBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Authorities in Germany were investigating on Saturday what prompted a man to go on the rampage with a knife in the town of Wuerzberg on Friday, killing three women and seriously injuring five other women.

Officials said the suspect, whose rampage was halted when police arrested him, was a 24-year-old Somali immigrant who had had mental health problems in the past. As is the practice in Germany, they did not name him.

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