Knife attack in a university in Hamm-Lippstadt: Students overwhelm the perpetrators - several injured

Created: 06/11/2022, 06:10

In a knife attack at the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, a 34-year-old individual injured four people.

The police are examining a suspected amok - meanwhile, one person is in acute danger of death.

• At least four people were injured in a knife attack at the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences (HSHL) on Friday, and one person is in acute danger of death.

• Students had overpowered the 34-year-old individual and held him until the police arrived.

• There is a suspicion that it could be an amok act.

  There is also evidence of mental illness on the part of the attacker.

• This news ticker is continuously updated.

Update from June 10, 10:12 p.m .:

In the case of the knife attack at the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, there is evidence of a mental illness of the alleged perpetrator.

The 34-year-old should therefore be examined by a psychiatrist on Saturday, as a spokesman for the Dortmund public prosecutor's office told the German Press Agency on Friday evening.

There is no evidence of a political background or accomplices.

Four people were injured, some seriously, in the attack on Friday afternoon.

One of the victims, a woman, had an emergency operation and was in acute danger of death, the prosecutor said.

Knife attack in Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences: police examine suspected amok

Update from June 10, 7:33 p.m .:

According to police chief Thomas Kubera, the police are currently investigating the suspicion that the knife attack at Hamm-Lippstadt University could be an amok act.

The

reports on Friday.

In such a case, it is normal to check whether there are other suspects.

Accordingly, emergency services from all over North Rhine-Westphalia searched the university.

However, one does not assume that there is still a danger on campus, said a police spokesman.

, the 34-year-old attacker is said to be a lone

perpetrator who is himself a student at the university and apparently comes from Hamm.

Knife attack Hamm-Lippstadt: Two seriously injured among the victims

Update from June 10, 6:31 p.m .:

In the knife attack at the university in Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, there are two seriously injured, as has now become known.

According to the

, the four injured are three women and one man, including two people with serious injuries.

One victim's injuries were so serious that he had to be flown to a hospital by helicopter, a police spokesman said on Friday afternoon.

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Knife attack in Hamm-Lippstadt: Students overwhelm the perpetrator and hold him until the police arrive

Update from June 10, 5:59 p.m .:

The perpetrator, who stabbed four people at the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, was overwhelmed by students in a lecture hall and held until the police arrived.

The man is a 34-year-old, a police spokesman has now confirmed.

It is still unclear whether he himself is or was a student at the university.

According to initial findings, the man went into the university building around 3:30 p.m. and attacked people in the corridors.

Then he headed for a larger lecture hall.

There he was overpowered.

Knife attack Hamm-Lippstadt: HSHL Chancellor shocked by the incident

Update from June 10, 5.45 p.m .:

The campus area of ​​the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences (HSHL) is currently cordoned off, as is Marker Allee, which leads past the HSHL.

However, the canteen is said to have been opened "in order to accommodate the students in the best possible way," as HSHL Chancellor Sandra Schlösser told the

.

Pastors are on site to look after the students.

"You're shocked.

In 15 years of university work, she has never experienced anything like this," continued Schlösser.

An aerial photo of the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences in the Mitte district of Hamm in North Rhine-Westphalia (archive photo).

© Hans Blossey/ Imago

Knife attack Hamm-Lippstadt: 34-year-old individual injured at least four people

First report :

Hamm-Lippstadt - At least four people are said to have been stabbed at the University of Hamm-Lippstadt (HSHL), according to a police spokesman on Friday.

The spokesman could not comment on the severity of the injuries sustained by the four victims.

, the suspect is said to

be a 34-year-old.

The Hamm police reported on Twitter about a larger operation in the university area.

The officials also confirmed that the perpetrator had already been brought under control.

According to information from

, the attacker was held by students and thus stopped.

The first report of the knife attack in Hamm-Lippstadt is said to have been received around 3:30 p.m. on Friday afternoon, as reported by the

.

At around 5 p.m., officers from the special task force SEK arrived at the university.

"We are on site with strong police forces and ask you to avoid this area," Hamm police continued.

The details and background to the act were initially unclear.

Knife attack in Hamm-Lippstadt: eyewitness reports of attack in the lecture hall

Big crowd in front of the university in Hamm on Friday afternoon.

©Andreas Rother

An eyewitness told the news portal

that there should have been an attack in a lecture hall at Hamm-Lippstadt University.

Accordingly, a lecturer at the university was apparently stabbed in the chest by a male attacker.

The victim suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken away by helicopter.

According to eyewitnesses, the perpetrator is said to be a former student at the university.

The information could not be confirmed at first.

The police have not released any information about the perpetrator or the course of the crime.