The suspect, a 39-year-old woman, was arrested at the scene of the attack Friday at Hamburg’s main station, which stunned the city in the middle of the evening rush hour.
She was arrested without resistance after the attack, which emergency services said had left at least four victims with life-threatening injuries.
The suspect “remains in custody and is due to appear before a judge on Saturday,“ they said in a statement.
Busy station
The suspect was thought to have turned “against passengers” at the station, a spokeswoman for the Hanover federal police directorate, which also covers Hamburg, told AFP.
Images of the scene showed access to the platforms at one end of the station blocked off by police and people being loaded into waiting ambulances.
German rail operator Deutsche Bahn said four platforms at the station had been closed while investigations were ongoing, adding that it was “deeply shocked” by the incident.
“My thoughts are with the victims and their families,“ Merz said, according to a readout from his spokesman Stefan Kornelius.
The most recent, on Sunday, saw four people injured in a stabbing at a bar in the city of Bielefeld.
The question of security -- and the immigrant origin of some of the attackers -- was a major topic during Germany’s recent election campaign.
The February vote saw Merz’s conservative CDU/CSU top the vote as well as a record score of more than 20 percent for the far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany.
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