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Police confirmed that they neutralized the assailant, described as a 24-year-old Somali resident in Würzburg, with a shot in the leg.
“A man living in Würzburg has been shot by the police, but his life is not in danger,” police said in a Twitter message.
The daily Bild previously reported that three people were killed and six more injured in the attack, some of them seriously.
The Police also indicated that there were no indications that the aggressor had an accomplice and that there was no longer any danger to the neighbors.
Videos posted on social media show people surrounded by an alleged attacker with bare feet and preventing him from escaping, threatening with chairs and sticks.
A woman told RTL that she had witnessed the attack and the police intervention.
“He had a really big knife and he was attacking people,” Julia Runze said. “So many people tried to throw chairs, umbrellas, cell phones at him to stop him.”
“Then the police arrived, and it seems to me that a shot was fired, it was clearly heard. In any case, he was captured, “added the witness to the event.
Police spokeswoman Kerstin Kunick said a report of the attack on Barbara Square in the city center was received at around 5 pm local time (6 pm Lithuanian time).
Joachim Herrmann, the head of security for the state of Bavaria, left for about 130,000. Würzburg, rich in population, located between Munich and Frankfurt.
The motives for the attack and the identity of the attacker are still unclear, but there is still heightened tension in Germany following several devastating attacks by Islamic extremists.
The deadliest incident in December 2016, when an Islamist drove a hijacked truck to a Christmas fair in Berlin, fatally injuring 12 people.
The attack was carried out by a Tunisian who was not granted asylum in Germany and was sympathetic to the Islamic State jihadist movement.
Last October, one person was killed and another seriously injured in an Islamist attack in Dresden.
The 20-year-old Syrian jihadist who organized the attack was sentenced in May to life in prison for a homophobic attack.
