German police arrest man suspected of killing three people in Solingen

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The Bild and Spiegel news websites reported that the suspect had given himself up after the incident on Friday night which also left eight people wounded.

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00:00Police in Germany have arrested the man suspected of killing three people in a knife attack

00:07on Friday night in the western city of Solingen.

00:10North Rhine-Westphalia's Interior Minister Herbert Reuel told public broadcaster ARD

00:16that the man police were looking for was taken into custody.

00:19Reuel gave no further details, but the built-in Spiegel News websites reported that the suspect

00:25had given himself up.

00:27The arrest comes after the so-called Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.

00:32In a statement published on its AMAK News website earlier on Saturday,

00:36the group said the attack had been carried out to avenge Muslims in Palestine.

00:41People alerted police shortly after 9.30 p.m. local time on Friday to an unknown attacker

00:47who had wounded several people after stabbing indiscriminately on a downtown square.

00:52Solingen was hosting the Festival of Diversity to mark the 650th anniversary of the city.

00:58It was supposed to run until Sunday, but the event has since been called off.

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