Chilling Moment Hooded Woman, 39, is arrested after 18 were stabbed in Hamburg: “I heard everyone start screaming,” says Eye witness

This is the horrifying moment that a woman was arrested after 18 people were injured in a horror train station Mes Rampage in Hamburg, which made four victims for their lives.

The police confirmed that they had arrested a 39-year-old German female suspect in connection with the stabbing Spree at the central station of Hamburg on Friday afternoon.

Images of the arrest shows a woman with a hood with a tracksuit soils that are towed away by two agents from the travel hub and are accompanied in horror in a police van in a police van.

The suspect, who is not called, does not seem to argue.

She is supposed to have acted alone and there was no sign that she had a political motive. The rampage is not treated as a terror attack.

The woman, who, according to the authorities, was mentally ill and potentially in a ‘state of psychological emergency’ at the time of attack, was already known to the police and had spent time in a psychiatric hospital earlier, According to German Outlet Bild.

Officers approached her and the woman was arrested without resistance, “said the spokesperson for the Hamburg police, Florian Abbenseth, journalists in reactions supported by the public broadcaster Ard.

“We have no evidence so far that the woman had a political motive,” said Abbenth.

“Instead, we have information based on which we now want to investigate whether she may have experienced a psychological emergency situation.”

At least 18 people were injured in the attack in the second largest city in Germany, a spokesperson for the Hamburg fire brigade told AFP.

Four of them had sustained life -threatening injuries, the spokesperson added, and revised a first figure of six.

Six others were seriously injured and seven more have suffered minor injuries, said the fire brigade’s spokesperson.

The suspect focused on the platform between tracks 13 and 14 in the station, according to the police.

A young woman at the station witnessed the stabbing. She said to Hamburger Abendblatt: “Fortunately I didn’t wear headphones, so I heard everyone screaming and then they all ran away.”

The station in the center of Hamburg is an important hub for local, regional and long -distance trains.

The Hamburg police reported a ‘major police operation’ on X.

‘There is currently a major police operation in #hamburg on #hauptbahnhof!

“We are investigating the background and will soon provide more information,” the power added.

Photos on social media showed crowds who had gathered outside the transport hub, while auxiliary vehicles swarmed for emergency services and forensics.

According to the German newspaper ChildSome wounded were treated on trains.

In one image a man on the platform was treated, while another was taken away on a stretcher.

In a statement, the National Railway Company Deutsche Bahn said that it was ‘deeply shocked’ by the attack. “Our thoughts and participation go to the wounded.”

Regional Public Omroep NDR reported that the attack took place shortly after 6 pm (5 pm GMT) for a waiting train.

A high-speed ice cream with its doors open could be seen on the platform after the attack.

Spail operator Deutsche Bahn said it was ‘deeply shocked’ by the attack.

The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in a message on social media platform X that the news from Hamburg was ‘shocking’.

“My thoughts are with the victims and their families,” he said.

Four tracks at the station were closed on Friday evening and a few long -distance trains were delayed or diverted.

Wearing weapons, including knives, is forbidden at the station and at local transport in Hamburg.

The Rampage in Hamburg Central Station is the last in a wave of bloody knife attacks in Germany.

Earlier this month, a Syrian national is said to have attacked at least five football fans and injured the cutie bar in the western city of Bielefeld.

Four men, between 22 and 27 years old, and a woman, 26 years old, were reportedly attacked by a man while standing before the bar in the early hours.

Gersiede spectators tried to hit the attacker, but he managed to flee the stage.

In January, a child and adult were killed during a knife attack in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg, who were two more injured.

Last summer three people and four died seriously injured after a knife attack in a festival in the streets of Solingen.