Solingen massacre, Isis claims action. Police in the refugee centre, Syrian arrested
The man allegedly aimed directly at his victims' necks
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In the evening of today, Saturday 24 August, came the Isis claim on the Solingen massacre of 23 August in Germany, where last night an attacker stabbed three people to death and wounded eight people. The claim was released through the Isis al-Amaq agency. In the note, the group claimed that the attacker was a 'soldier of the Islamic State' and attacked a 'Christian gathering'. The attack, the claim continued, was conducted 'to avenge Muslims in Palestine and everywhere'.
German police have forcibly entered the refugee reception centre in the centre of Solingen, . A police spokesman told Bild, explaining that they had ''received information related to the bomber, we are intervening''. About 100 officers surrounded the site, the Bild reported. The police arrested a Syrian man.
The two men who were killed by a knife-wielding assailant last night in Solingen were 67 and 57 years old and the woman 56. The victims are said to be a woman and two men from Solingen and Düsseldorf. The weapon used by the assailant was found in a rubbish bin in the centre of the German city.
The catch
.The young man arrested as part of the investigation into the Solingen massacre is only 15 years old. This was revealed at the ongoing police press conference in Wuppertal. Investigators confirmed that it is being investigated whether the teenager is connected to the knife attack that killed three people and injured eight. According to testimonies collected by the police, the young man was heard talking on the phone with the suspected bomber. He would therefore not be the bomber, but evidently a friend or associate of the murderer himself, who is still at large on the run and hunted by the police.
Witness: killer shouted Allah Akbar
The knife-wielding attacker who killed three people in Solingen last night shouted Allah Akbar during the attack. This was reported by the newspaper 'Welt am Sonntag', which cites a German police report in which the account of a witness is mentioned. One of the injured victims also claimed to 'know the attacker in Solingen' and that he was a frequenter of a local mosque.
