Germany Knife Attack Victims Were All Women: Police

Police secure the area during a "major operation" in which police arrested a suspect after local media had earlier reported multiple stabbings, in the German town of Wuerzburg, Germany, on June 25, 2021. Heiko Becker/Reuters

WUERZBURG, Germany–Authorities in Germany were investigating on Saturday what prompted a man to go on a rampage with a knife in the town of Wuerzburg on Friday, killing three women and seriously injuring five other women.

Officials said the suspect, whose rampage was halted when police arrested him, was a 24-year-old Somali immigrant who had had mental health problems in the past. As is the practice in Germany, they did not name him.