Police are searching for a suspect after a knife attack during the Festival of Diversity killed three people and injured eight
Full report: three killed and four seriously injured at diversity festival in Germany
The state interior minister, Herbert Reul, has visited the scene of the stabbings and told reporters it was a targeted attack on human life but declined to speculate on the motive, Reuters reports.
Solingen is in North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany’s most populous state and bordering the Netherlands.