A MAN used a knife to assault a number of passengers shortly before the teach arrived on the Brokstedt station (Image: AP)

folks have died following a stabbing on a educate in northern Germany.

Police say a person used a knife to assault several passengers at round 3pm native time.

The incident came because the train, vacationing from Kiel to Hamburg, made its manner towards Brokstedt station.

An preliminary investigation suggested seven folks had been wounded, police stated.

Internal minister of Schleswig-Holstein state, Sabine Suetterlin-Waack, has confirmed people had been killed and five were wounded within the attack.

‘it is terrible,’ she instructed reporters.

‘we’re shocked and horrified that one thing like this has happened.’

Detectives have now detained a suspect in connection with the assault, news agency dpa stated.

Police did not provide the outlet with any data at the suspect’s identity and said his conceivable reasons had been underneath research.

The educate station in Brokstedt was once closed for several hours following the attack.

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