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Police Arrest Man For Killing Baby, Ex-Wife

  A man from Niger stabbed to death his German ex-wife and their one-year-old daughter in a brutal attack in a busy train station Thursday, … Continue reading Police Arrest Man For Killing Baby, Ex-Wife


Police forensics officers (L) works alongside an underground tube train at a platform at Parsons Green underground tube station in west London on September 15, 2017, following an incident on an underground tube carriage at the station. British police are treating an incident on a London Underground train on Friday as an act of terrorism, saying “a number of people” had been injured. Twenty-two people were injured after a bomb blast on a packed London Underground train on Friday, the National Health Service said in a statement. Adrian DENNIS / AFP
FILE COPY A scene from an underground tube train at a platform at Parsons Green underground tube station in west London. Photo Credit: Adrian DENNIS / AFP

 

A man from Niger stabbed to death his German ex-wife and their one-year-old daughter in a brutal attack in a busy train station Thursday, police said.

The bloody knife killings took place mid-morning in the busiest subway station of Hamburg, Germany’s second-biggest city.

“The crime was very, very terrible in its execution, very targeted and very, very extreme,” said police spokesman Timo Zill.

“We currently assume it was a crime of passion.”

The 33-year-old suspect initially ran off but then phoned the police, who arrested him inside the Jungfernstieg underground station.

Police said the child died immediately in the attack around 0850 GMT and the 34-year-old woman succumbed to her injuries in hospital.

Police and firefighters responded in large numbers, and trauma counselling was offered to witnesses and emergency responders.

AFP