Three people severely wounded after knife attack on German train

An ICE train stands at the station in Seubersdorf, southern Germany, Saturday, Nov.6, 2021. There has been a knife attack in the ICE between Regensburg and Nuremberg. Photo/AP

A knife attack on a high-speed train in Germany left three people severely wounded, the Bavarian Red Cross said on Saturday. Police said a man has been arrested in connection with the morning attack.

The train, one of Germany's high-speed ICE trains, was traveling between the Bavarian cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg at the time of the attack. A spokesperson for the Bavarian Red Cross, which had 110 responders at the scene, said the organisation processed three "severely injured" people.

A 27-year-old Syrian man was arrested in Seubersdorf, where the train stopped after the attack, Bavarian state police told The Associated Press. The injured people came from the Regensburg and nearby Passau areas, state police said.

In addition, 200 to 300 other people from the train were taken off and brought to a nearby location, the Bavarian Red Cross spokesperson said.

Local police told The Associated Press they received a call about the attack around 9am.

Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said the background behind the "terrible" attack was "still unclear". He said people in Seubersdorf, a municipality 473km south of Berlin, faced no "acute danger".

"I hope that those injured and those who witnessed this will recover quickly and completely," Seehofer said.

A spokesperson for the German railway network confirmed that the station in Seubersdorf was closed and that train travel between Regensburg and Nuremberg was suspended. Long-distance train service has since been rerouted via the nearby city of Ingolstadt.