The case is being updated.
– We have arrested a suspect. There is currently no indication that there is another perpetrator. There is no danger to the population, the police in the Bavarian district of Unterfranken write Twitter.
Police say they arrested the perpetrator after shooting him, but that he is not life-threateningly injured. The perpetrator had mental illness, according to BR24. He is a 24-year-old man from Somalia who lives in Würzburg, according to the police.
The news agency DPA is informed by sources that five people are injured, while Bild reports six injured.
Bild refers to a video that is said to have been taken by a witness on the spot. In the film you can see a barefoot man wearing gray trousers and a beige sweater. He waves with a knife that is about 20 centimeters long.
The video shows people trying to hold him back, and a person shouts that the man has stabbed a woman. A chair is thrown at him, and another person tries to stop him with a stick or a stick.
The police ask people not to spread rumors and guesses. They have launched a major campaign, and they have blocked off Barbarossaplatz in the city center.
Around 130,000 people live in Würzburg, located between Frankfurt and Nuremberg.
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