Attack in Berlin
Charles Johnson
Fri May 26, 2006 at 6:58 pm PDT • Views: 398
Man stabs 20 at opening of Berlin train station. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
BERLIN (Reuters) - A knife-wielding man attacked people streaming out of a gala ceremony for Berlin’s new central rail station on Friday night, injuring up to 20 before being arrested, police said.
“A crazy man ran down the street stabbing people arbitrarily,” a policeman at the scene told Reuters. Police said some of the injured were in serious condition.
The attacker was identified as a 17-year old German man from Neukoelln, a southern Berlin district with a large immigrant population. Police said he did not have a far-right background.
The attack occurred a few hundred meters from the showpiece rail station where Chancellor Angela Merkel and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit had given speeches only hours before.
Frank says: