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A 26-year-old man has given himself up and confessed to a mass knife attack at a street festival in Germany, police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“The involvement of this person is currently under intensive investigation,” prosecutors and D\u00fcsseldorf police said in a joint statement. <\/p>\n

Prosecutors have opened an investigation into “participating in a terrorist organisation”.<\/p>\n

Three people were killed and another eight injured in the city of Solingen during a festival to celebrate its 650-year history, in what Chancellor Olaf Scholz described as a “horrific act”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Solingen residents feel ‘great solidarity’ after knife attack<\/figcaption><\/p>\n
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The Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for the bloodshed, but did not immediately provide any evidence of a relationship with the attacker.<\/p>\n

Those killed were two men aged 56 and 67, and a 56-year-old woman, officials said. Four of the injured are still in a serious condition. All of the victims were stabbed in the neck, police have said. <\/p>\n

“The man we\u2019ve really been looking for the whole day has just been taken into custody,” Herbert Reul, the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state, told ARD public TV late on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Germany’s Bild and Spiegel news websites reported that the suspect surrendered himself in dirty blood-stained clothes.<\/p>\n

Police described him as Syrian, and German media reported that he arrived in Germany in December 2022, after leaving the war-torn country.<\/p>\n

Bild reported that special task force (SEK) officers stormed a refugee centre the suspect was associated with, detaining someone there.<\/p>\n

Police also arrested a 15-year-old boy who is alleged to have known about the attack in advance.<\/p>\n

The refugee centre is located about 300m (984ft) from Fronhof – Solingen’s central market square where people were stabbed on Friday night – according to Bild.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Police raided a refugee centre in Solingen which the attack suspect was associated with<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Solingen – a city famous for its steel industry – has about 160,000 inhabitants. It lies about 25km (15 miles) east of D\u00fcsseldorf.<\/p>\n

The city’s authorities asked people to leave the Fronhof area after the attack at about 22:00 local time (21:00 BST) on Friday.<\/p>\n

The planned three-day celebrations of the city anniversary – for which about 75,000 people had been expected – were cancelled after the attack.<\/p>\n

Solingen Mayor Tim Kurzbach later said that “all of us in Solingen are in shock, horror and great sadness.<\/p>\n

“It breaks my heart that an attack has happened in our city. I have tears in my eyes when I think of those we’ve lost.<\/p>\n

“I pray for all those still fighting for their lives. Also my greatest sympathy for all those who had to experience this, these images must have been horrific.”<\/p>\n

People have been bringing flowers and candles to the site of the attack that shocked the entire country.<\/p>\n

Players from Germany’s top Bundesliga football league wore black armbands during Saturday’s matches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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