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German police say no indication bus attacker was radicalized

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Reuters

July 21, 2018

A policeman looks on as a bus — in which a passenger attacked fellow travellers with a knife in the afternoon — is towed away from the crime scene in Kuecknitz, Luebeck, Germany, July 20, 2018. AFP/dpa/Markus Scholz
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BERLIN: German police said there was no indication that a man who injured people in a knife attack on a bus in the northern city of Luebeck on Friday was politically radicalized.

“The identity of the perpetrator has been clarified: a 34-year-old German citizen resident in Luebeck,” police added on Twitter.