German bus attack suspect originally from Iran - local newspaper


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  • Saturday, 21 Jul 2018

BERLIN (Reuters) - A man suspected of injuring several people in a knife attack on a bus in Luebeck on Friday is originally from Iran but is now a German citizen and has lived in the northern city for years, the Luebecker Nachrichten newspaper said.

Without citing a source, the paper added that the interior minister of Schleswig-Holstein, the state where Luebeck is located, did not assume there was a terrorist motive for the attack.

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