Solingen stabbing attack: Police manhunt under way in Germany after three killed at diversity festival
German chancellor Olaf Scholz says that the perpetrator must be caught quickly and ‘punished to the fullest extent of the law’
The state interior minister, Herbert Reul, has visited the scene of the stabbings and told reporters it was a targeted attack on human life but declined to speculate on the motive, Reuters reports.
Solingen is in North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany’s most populous state and bordering the Netherlands.