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   BERLIN –  A man armed with a kitchen knife attacked passengers Friday   
   on a crowded city bus in northern Germany before being overpowered and   
   arrested, authorities said. Ten people were injured, three of them   
   seriously.   
      
   Authorities had no immediate information on the assailant's motive for   
   the afternoon attack on a city bus in Luebeck, near the Baltic coast   
   northeast of Hamburg, but said they had no indication that he was   
   politically radicalized or had any terrorist background.   
      
   Investigators found a flammable substance in a backpack aboard the   
   bus, but no explosives.   
      
   The incident started when the assailant set fire to the backpack,   
   prosecutor Ulla Hingst said at a Friday evening news conference in   
   Luebeck.   
      
   The driver told investigators that he stopped the bus and opened all   
   the doors to let passengers out after noticing the fire in his   
   rear-view mirror.   
      
   He then walked back to find out what was going on and was hit by the   
   assailant, Hingst said. As the suspect left the bus, he stabbed people   
   around him with a 13-centimeter (5-inch) kitchen knife. The attacker   
   was overpowered by passengers outside the vehicle, then quickly   
   arrested by police nearby.   
      
   Five of the victims were still hospitalized Friday evening.   
      
   The suspect is a 34-year-old man who lives locally. Hingst said he is   
   a longtime German citizen who was born in Iran.   
      
   "There are no indications that the man was in any way politically   
   radicalized," Hingst said. "For that reason we have, as the   
   investigation currently stands, no indications that there was a   
   terrorist background to this act."   
      
   She added the motive is "still open" and "we are investigating in all   
   directions."   
      
   Prosecutors will seek to have the man kept in custody pending possible   
   charges of bodily harm and attempted arson, Hingst said.   
      
   The bus was traveling from Luebeck to the neighboring seaside resort   
   of Travemuende, where an annual regatta, the Travemuender Woche, was   
   opening later Friday.   
      
   Schleswig-Holstein's state interior minister, Hans-Joachim Grote, said   
   there was no reason to believe that there was an increased risk to the   
   regatta but police presence there was stepped up as a precaution.   
      
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/07/20/man-with-knife-attacks-b   
   s-passengers-in-germany-10-hurt.html   
      
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