Mann in Berlin’s subway station stabbed-the police shoot on the attacker-Diepresse.com
The attacker is said to have threatened emergency services with a knife raised when trying to escape. The police then had to make use of the firearm and hit the man. The background was still completely unclear.
An attacker stabbed a man in a conflict in a Berlin subway station and fatally injured. The police then had to shoot the attacker, said a police spokesman for the German press agency. The « BZ » had previously reported.
According to the police, the men had clashed on Saturday afternoon in Sophie-Charlotte-Platz underground station in the west of Berlin. Then one is said to have attacked the other with a knife and so seriously injured that he died.
Background unclear
The police spokesman said that the attacker then fled to Schloßstraße, which leads from Sophie-Charlotte-Platz to Charlottenburg Castle. There he is said to have threatened emergency services with a knife raised. The police then had to make use of the firearm and hit the man. He came to a hospital. The background was still completely unclear.
Sophie-Charlotte-Platz underground station is located on the subway line 2, which leads from western Berlin via Potsdamer Platz and Alexanderplatz to Pankow in the east of Berlin. (APA/dpa)
