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Officials in Germany have said they cannot rule out “terrorist motives” following a stabbing at a festival which left three people dead – and revealed a 15-year-old has been detained in connection with the incident.
The teenager is suspected of failing “to report an imminent crime”, police and prosecutors said at a news conference on Saturday afternoon.
Prosecutor Markus Caspers said authorities are still looking into motives following a “large-scale” overnight manhunt around the city of Solingen, involving several police forces and special units.
A 56-year-old woman and two men, aged 56 and 67, died following the attack. Eight people were injured, four seriously, while “many other people have suffered mental stress”.
Police were alerted by witnesses shortly after 9.30pm local time on Friday, to reports of several people being wounded in a central square, the Fronhof, during a community festival.
Searches are still also under way at various locations, officers have said. “The investigation and manhunt for possible further perpetrators and reasons for the crime are in full swing.”
Earlier in the day, police issued a warning urging people to stay vigilant, even as well-wishers started to leave flowers at the scene.
DJ and music producer Topic, who was performing at the festival, said he was on stage and asked to continue performing “to avoid mass panic” as the incident unfolded.
Solingen has about 160,000 residents and is near the bigger city of Dusseldorf and Germany‘s border with the Netherlands.
Information about the identities of the victims has not yet been released.
The region’s top security official, Herbert Reul, who visited the scene in the early hours of Saturday, told reporters it was a targeted attack on human life but declined to speculate on the motive.
The Festival of Diversity, marking the city’s 650th anniversary, began on Friday and was supposed to continue over the weekend, with several stages in central streets offering attractions such as live music, cabaret and acrobatics. It has now been cancelled.
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