Knife attack on German bus leaves many injured - local media
Updated 5.37pm
A man armed with a knife attacked people on a bus in the northern German city of Luebeck on Friday, wounding at least 14 people, two seriously, before being arrested by police, the local newspaper reported.
Schleswig-Holstein police said no one was killed in the incident and confirmed the suspect was in custody. They did not immediately give further details.
"The offender was overpowered and is in police custody. We are still at the site and will continue to report from here," the police said on Twitter.
The Luebecker Nachrichten newspaper cited state prosecutor Ulla Hingst as saying: "Nothing can be ruled out, including a terrorist background."
Hingst told national newspaper Bild the attack took place at 1.47pm local time (1147 GMT).
Luebecker Nachrichten, which said the attacker appeared to be in his mid-30s, quoted a witness as saying: "One of the victims had just given up his place to an older woman, when the attacker stabbed him in the chest."
An area around a bus stop in the Luebeck neighbourhood of Kuecknitz was sealed off by police, spokesman Dierk Duerbook told Bild.
Earlier, police in Schleswig-Holstein, the state where Luebeck is located, tweeted that...
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