Early reports are that a suspect currently under arrest went on a stabbing spree in Hamburg, Germany, today, injuring several shoppers and killing at least one.
#Barmbek: Ein Täter hat mehrere Personen in einem Supermarkt angegriffen & verletzt. Eine Person verstorben. Tatverdächtiger festgenommen. pic.twitter.com/TPKtqmjamp
— Polizei Hamburg (@PolizeiHamburg) July 28, 2017
And according to one eyewitness, the suspect was shouting, “Allah Akhbar!”
Eye witness to attack on supermarket in Barmbek, Hamburg. Says man stabbed 3 then shouted Allah Akbar. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/1UdpjUKZQO
— Gone Fishing (@IanBennett23) July 28, 2017
Deutsche Welle reports:
Hamburg police reported that a knife attack in a Hamburg supermarket on Friday afternoon has left one person dead and several injured.
In a press statement, a police spokesperson said that the suspect had entered the supermarket and suddenly began stabbing customers before fleeing the building. Bystanders followed the suspect and alerted the police, who arrested the man shortly thereafter in a nearby street.
The suspect has not yet been identified.
The supermarket where the attack took place is located in Barmbek, a northeast neighborhood in the northern port city of Hamburg.
#Hamburg: Blutige Attacke an der #Fuhlsbüttler Straße auf Passanten. Ein Täter wurden offenbar festgenommen. pic.twitter.com/Om22umA7L9
— Thomas Röthemeier (@t_roethemeier) July 28, 2017
#Hamburg police report 1 killed after several people were attacked in a supermarket, @PolizeiHamburghttps://t.co/VX4Z5q0fRV pic.twitter.com/gJJoDp5oUl
— Saad (@SaadAbedine) July 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/BreakingNNow/status/890945664670203905
As I reported here at PJ Media last night, U.S. officials are warning coalition partners of 19,000 ISIS fighters on the loose.
This comes a week after a report that Interpol has sent out a list of 173 potential ISIS suicide bombers.
Today’s attack in Hamburg takes place amidst a rash of ISIS-inspired attacks already this year in Paris, London, Brussels, Stockholm, and the suicide bombing in Manchester.
2017 Has Seen a Terror Attack Attempted in Europe Every 9 Dayshttps://t.co/pkGilxUGM1 pic.twitter.com/7vyBikhFmf
— Simon Harding (@gridnash) May 25, 2017
And, of course, the Christmas market attack in Berlin last December that killed 12 people.
Earlier this week, a suspect attacked police at the Spain-Morocco border, also shouting, “Allah Akhbar.”
This terrorist didn’t even see it coming. https://t.co/H0CbShgQD2 #WorldNews
— PJ Media (@PJMedia_com) July 26, 2017
This follows a trend of terror escalation in Europe:
Jihadist Arrests in EU Doubled Last Year, Rising for Third Year in a Row: Europol https://t.co/xkOSh7Egqo via @pjmedia_com pic.twitter.com/ylwbhP5Px3
— Patrick Poole (@pspoole) June 16, 2017
#ThanksObama Global Terrorism Has Tripled Since 2011: Now At An All Time High & Up 900% in OECD https://t.co/EVgKJs9SKl via @pjmedia_com pic.twitter.com/0FzJILERd3
— Patrick Poole (@pspoole) June 1, 2017
We will update on the Hamburg situation as more information becomes available.
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