A man was arrested following an axe attack at Duesseldorf’s main train station that left seven people injured late Thursday, police said.
A spokesperson for Duesseldorf police, Anja Kynast, told The Associated Press that the man arrested was also injured.
Officers were alerted about an attack shortly before 9 p.m. local time, prompting a large-scale police response.
“A person, probably armed with an axe, attacked people at random,” police said in a statement. Seven people were injured, three of them seriously, they said.
Police officers secure the area around the train station after the axe attack in Duesseldorf. (Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images)
The suspected attacker was arrested after jumping off an overpass near the train station, the statement said. The 36-year-old man, described as being from “the former Yugoslavia” and living in the nearby city of Wuppertal, suffered serious injuries and was being treated in a hospital.
“The suspect appears to have had psychological problems,” police said.
An axe was recovered and officers were searching the area in and around the station, which was closed for the investigation. Police withdrew an earlier report that a second person had been arrested, saying later that they were working on the assumption the man had acted alone.