4 Stabbed Near Frankfurt, Two Suspects Held

In a stabbing incident in the German city of Hanau on Tuesday evening, four people were wounded near Frankfurt, according to the police said.

Two suspects have been detained by officers.

Focus Online, a German website, quoted police as saying that a group of five to seven people had assaulted passers-by with knives. The magazine also reported that none of the injured were in a life-threatening situation.

"Four people were taken to a clinic in Hanau, near Frankfurt western Germany financial center, with injuries including stab wounds," police said in a statement.

Police said one of the suspects who was being held was 23 years old, the other 29 years old.

"The reason for the attacks was still unclear," a police spokesman said. "No signs that the incident was related to a gunman murdering nine people with foreign origins in February."

A 43-year-old man with racist views then shot nine dead in Hanau's shisha bars before killing himself and his mother, an assault that shook Germany.

It is worth mentioning that a woman was stabbed Tuesday afternoon in the central Israeli town of Kfar Saba in what the police said they were treating as a possible terror attack.

The 62-year-old woman was in moderate-to-serious condition and received on-scene care before being transferred to Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said.

The attacker was shot and “neutralized,” according to the Zaka emergency service. It was not immediately clear if he was still alive, or what his condition was.