Police and local prosecutors said a 30-year-old woman died from injuries sustained in an apparent knife attack on students on a German university campus.
The woman is an assistant professor who was attending a seminar at the Hamm-Lipstadt University of Applied Sciences when the attack took place on Friday. Two other young women and a young man were injured in the attack before the students were able to control the attacker.
And on Saturday, the 34-year-old suspect was transferred to a mental health center after prosecutors indicated he was “probably suffering from schizophrenia.”
Today, the university announced in a statement posted on its website that it has received “with great sadness the news of the patient’s death.”
A 22-year-old student received eight stab wounds to the abdomen that required emergency surgery and is believed to be no longer life-threatening, while the other two victims, a young man and a 22-year-old woman, suffered less serious injuries.
Prosecutors said: “The suspect was a university student and targeted the victims with two knives,” noting that “on Friday he was released from a psychiatric hospital where he had been transferred after attempting suicide.”
Source: El Nashra