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ISIL claims responsibility for stabbing attack in Germany’s Solingen
Authorities continue to search for perpetrator of knife attack that killed three people in western Germany.
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the knife attack that killed three people at a festival in Germany.
Eight others were wounded when the attacker started stabbing people at random in Solingen, near Dusseldorf, on Friday night.
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of being linked to the rampage but the knifeman is still on the loose.
Witnesses heard the attacker – said by police to have targeted victims’ throats – telling the teenager ‘I’m going to stab everyone’, according to local reports.
Hendrik Wuest, premier of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, described Friday evening’s attack during a festival in the city as an act of terror.
‘This attack has struck at the heart of our country,’ he told reporters.
Interior minister Nancy Faeser said authorities were doing all they could to catch the assailant.
The so-called Islamic State group said in a statement on its Telegram account that the attack was carried out by one of its members ‘in revenge for Muslims in Palestine and everywhere’.
