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The train was traveling between Kiel and Hamburg. /Fabian Bimmer/Reuters
Two people were killed and seven others injured when a stateless Palestinian man attacked them with a knife on Wednesday on a regional train traveling between Kiel and Hamburg in Germany.
Police in the state of Schlewsig-Holstein on the Danish border said the 33-year-old man, who was himself lightly injured, was being treated in hospital. He was arrested at a train stop in the village of Brokstedt.
Three others were seriously injured in the attack and four suffered light injuries.
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Police said there was no information on the motive for the attack.
Regional broadcaster NDR, citing sources on the investigation team, reported that the man, who came from Gaza eight years ago, had a criminal past, and there was no evidence of a political motivation.
Police were investigating at the train station in Brokstedt, with some train services between the two cities cancelled.
Federal and state police are working together on the investigation, state interior minister Sabine Suettelin-Waack said in a statement.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser added: "The knife attack in a regional train is shocking news. All our thoughts are with the victims of this terrible act and their families.
"The background to the crime is now being investigated at full speed. I would like to sincerely thank the police and rescue workers who responded."
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