Germany: Four injured in knife attack at university; two injured in separate knife attack at elementary school

Germany: Four injured in knife attack at university; two injured in separate knife attack at elementary school

BERLIN, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — 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.
    
A police spokesman said four people had been injured but could not say how badly.
      
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.
      
Germany was also shocked earlier this year by a rare shooting on a university campus.
      
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. — NNN-AGENCIES

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