BERLIN (AP) — Police have arrested a 32-year-old woman in connection with a knife attack that left six people wounded on a bus heading to a festival in western Germany, and authorities said Saturday there was no evidence of a political or religious motive.
Police said Friday evening that three of those attacked were in life-threatening condition.
The knife attack took place in Siegen, east of Cologne. The bus was on its way to a local festival in the town and had at least 40 people on board when the attack happened at around 7.40pm.
Police and prosecutors said the six injured were aged between 16 and 30 and were all from the area. By Saturday morning, three had been treated as outpatients and released from hospital.
Local authorities planned to hold the festival as scheduled.
The stabbing in Siegen came a week after a knife attack in Solingen, also in North Rhine-Westphalia, where a suspected Syrian-born Islamist militant who had escaped deportation is accused of killing three people and wounding eight.
In the wake of the Solingen attack, the ruling coalition has drawn up plans to tighten knife laws and make deportations easier.
Police said the woman arrested in Siegen was a German national with no immigrant roots.
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