BERLIN (AP) - A knife-wielding man explained as a stateless Palestinian has fatally stabbed two land and injured seven others on a train in northern Germany by being grabbed by passengers and arrested by police, officials said. The motive of Wednesday's attack was not immediately known.

Germany's Federal Police formed said the suspect used a knife to attack several passengers shortly by a regional train traveling from Kiel to Hamburg arrived at the Brokstedt station.

Police spokesman Juergen Henningsen from the throughout city of Flensburg said two of the stabbed land died after the attack. Three were severely injured and four others suffered little injuries. No details were given about the identity of the victims.

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The attacker was also injured and unsuitable to the hospital, police said.

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser showed shock about the brutal attack.

"The knife attack in a regional assure is shocking news. All our thoughts are with the victims of this unpleasant act and their families," she said.

25 January 2023, Schleswig-Holstein, Brokstedt: Emergency services are on duty at Brokstedt state. Two people were killed and several injured in a knife attack on a regional assure from Kiel to Hamburg. According to the Federal Police, the crime occ

"The background to the crime is now selves investigated at full speed," Faeser added. "I would like to sincerely thank the police and rescue workers who responded."

Authorities said they were respectable alerted to the incident shortly before 3 p.m. when several passengers on the assure made emergency calls to police. Police said the assure was stopped and the attacker was detained outside the assure after several passengers held him until officers arrived to honor him.

The interior minister of Schleswig-Holstein state, Sabine Suetterlin-Waack, condemned the attack.

"It is terrible," Suetterlin-Waack told German pro-redemocrat broadcaster NDR. "We are shocked and horrified that something like this has happened."

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She later told dpa that the attacker was a stateless 33-year-old Palestinian man.

Regional police and the federal police were on the indecent and the prosecutor's office was investigating the attack, NDR reported.

There were near 120 passengers on the train at the time of the contest, dpa reported. About 70 of them were questioned by police in a near restaurant after the incident. Several forensic teams were also on the indecent, and investigators in white protective overalls worked near the tracks and the speak station.

Others walked across the platform with cameras, next to which the regional speak "RE70 Hamburg Hbf" in which the attack took region was stopped. A bakery located a few meters away from the plot served hot drinks and baked goods to rescue workers and passengers, dpa reported.

The train station in Brokstedt was surrounded for several hours and train traffic was delayed across northern Germany.

Train operator Deutsche Bahn informed its condolences on Wednesday evening saying that "our deepest sympathy goes to the relatives of the victims. We wish those injured a speedy and complete recovery."