Efe Berlin
Berlin
Updated Thursday, February 22, 2024-12:16
Several students from a secondary school in
Wuppertal
(western
Germany
) were injured this Thursday in a knife attack, while a suspect has been arrested, police reported.
"There is a large deployment at the scene. There are students injured. A suspect has been arrested," the
North Rhine-Westphalia
'Land' police announced in a message on social networks.
According to the tabloid 'Bild', at least four teenagers were injured in the attack, although the severity of the injuries is unknown at the moment.
The alleged attacker is, according to this media, a student who broke into the center
armed with a knife
and who was arrested around 10:20 local time (09:20 GMT), half an hour after the security forces arrived at the scene.
A police spokesperson quoted by the regional newspaper 'Westdeutsche Zeitung' indicated that the alleged attacker was also injured and that, although the background of the events is unknown at the moment, it is not ruled out that he went to the center with the intention of injuring or kill as many students as possible.