A 32-year-old woman has been arrested after six people were injured in a knife attack on a bus heading to a festival in western Germany. Authorities said there was no evidence of a political or religious motive, the Guardian reports.
Three of the six attacked persons are in danger, the police announced on Friday evening.
The knife attack happened in Zigen, east of Cologne. The bus was on its way to a festival in that city, and at the time of the attack, around 19:40 p.m., there were at least 40 other passengers in it.
Police and prosecutors said that the injured were between 16 and 30 years old and that they were all from that region. By Saturday morning, three of them had left the hospital after receiving outpatient treatment.
Local authorities planned to continue holding the festival.
The attack in Siegen came a week after a knife attack in Solingen, a city in the same state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in which a suspected Islamic extremist from Syria, who had avoided deportation, was accused of killing three people and injuring eight others.
The Solingen attack has prompted the ruling coalition to draw up plans to tighten knife laws and make deportations easier. The police said that the arrested woman from Zigen is a German citizen and has no immigrant roots.
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