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Berlin police officers stand at the Sophie-Charlotte-Platz subway entrance after an act of violence. Photo: Fabian Sommer/dpa
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An attacker stabbed and fatally injured a man during an altercation in a Berlin subway station. The police then had to shoot the attacker, a police spokesman told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur. The newspaper "B.Z." had reported earlier.
According to the police, the men had clashed on Saturday afternoon in the Sophie-Charlotte-Platz subway station in the west of Berlin. Then one is said to have attacked the other with a knife and injured him so badly that he died.
The police spokesman said that the attacker then fled to Schlossstrasse, which leads from Sophie-Charlotte-Platz to Charlottenburg Palace. There he is said to have threatened police officers with a raised knife.
The police then had to use their firearms and shot the man. He was taken to hospital. The background was still completely unclear.
The Sophie-Charlotte-Platz subway station is on subway line 2, which runs from the west of Berlin via Potsdamer Platz and Alexanderplatz to Pankow in the east of Berlin.
12.04.2025, 18:27
