At least four people have been injured after being stabbed in Frankfurt and the perpetrator is now on the run, say police.
According to local radio station FFH, the motive is not yet clear.
A message on Frankfurt police’s Twitter feed read: “ There was a knife assault at the #Hauptwache in #Frankfurt. That’s why so many colleagues [police officers] and rescue workers there.”
All four victims have been taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The incident occurred at the B-level of the Hauptwache train station in the centre of Frankfurt.
Photographs taken at the scene showed pools of blood on the floor along with scattered personal belongings.
However, Frankfurt police looked to reassure the public by tweeting: “If we recognised a threat to the local population we would communicate this.”
The stabbings will still raise fears the attack was terror-related after a string of incidents across Europe over recent months.
In June, a police officer and his wife were stabbed to death in Magnanville, France.
The killer, who pledged allegiance to ISIS, brutally slaughtered police chief Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and his wife at their home last night.
In July a 17-year-old Afghan refugee seriously injured five people with a knife and hatchet on a train near Würzburg in Germany. The attacker was shot dead when he attacked police officers
Verletzte nach #Messerattacke werden ins Krankenhaus gefahren. #Frankfurt #Hauptwache pic.twitter.com/7quv733k9I
— H D (@hussedogru) October 29, 2016
On July 24 a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device outside a wine bar in Ansbach, Germany, 15 people were injured, four seriously.
He recorded videos showing him pledging allegiance to ISIS and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Two days later a priest was murdered and four nuns were taken hostage in a church in Rouen, France.
#BREAKING: Picturea from the scene in #Frankfurt train station were 4 people were stabbed pic.twitter.com/m2DMJcoZTX
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) October 29, 2016
The two terrorists were shot dead.
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