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Police and emergency services are at the scene.
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Two people were fatally injured in a knife attack in Hamburg.
The police are now urgently searching for a suspect.
Those involved obviously knew each other.
Hamburg - Two people were fatally injured in a knife attack in Hamburg-Billstedt.
The investigators are searching intensively for a suspect, a police spokesman said on Friday afternoon.
Several vehicles and a helicopter are in use.
Media reports said that at least two suspects were on the run.
The speaker contradicted this.
There is most likely a family connection between the perpetrator and the victim.
“According to initial findings, this is a relationship crime,” the police also said on the X platform.
According to the police spokesman, witnesses initially observed a dispute between several people on a residential street around midday on Friday.
A little later, two people were lying lifeless on the street.
When emergency services arrived at the scene, only the deaths of both victims could be determined.
One of them is male, but the identity of the second dead person has not been conclusively clarified.
The homicide squad has now taken over the investigation.
The next step will be to collect evidence at the crime scene, said the police spokesman.
The area was cordoned off.
In the meantime, special police forces were also on site.
dpa