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German police search a western city for a knife attacker who killed 3 at a festival

August 24, 2024

Special police units on Saturday joined the search for an unknown knifeman who cut the throats of revellers at a crowded festival in the western German city of Solingen, killing three people and wounding at least eight others, four of them seriously.

Queen praises heroes who used a narwhal tusk and fire extinguisher to stop London Bridge attacker

December 01, 2019

LONDON - The queen on Saturday led tributes to individual acts of bravery on London Bridge, which included a Polish immigrant helping subdue the British-born terrorist with a five-foot narwhal tusk grabbed from a wall.

Latest : Japan police search home of stabbing attacker

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2019

Tokyo - Japanese police on Wednesday searched the home of the man behind a stabbing rampage in the town of Kawasaki a day earlier that killed two people, including a child.

Attacker hurts 20 children with hammer at Beijing school

TUESDAY, JANUARY 08, 2019

A hammer-wielding man wounded 20 children in an attack at an elementary school in Beijing Tuesday with three suffering serious injuries, local authorities said.

Street dog dies, others in veterinary care after shooting by unknown attacker in Rayong

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 02, 2018

An unknown assailant shot six street dogs in Rayong’s Mueang district on Monday, causing four of the dogs to hide before they were rescued the following day.

Knife attacker on Germany bus arrested, nine injured

SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2018

Nine people were injured in an attack by a man wielding a knife on a bus in northern Germany, officials said, although his motive remained unclear.

Police stumped by motives of Germany van attacker

SUNDAY, APRIL 08, 2018

German investigators were puzzled Sunday morning by the motives of a man who drove a van into a crowd at an open-air restaurant the day before, killing two people before shooting himself.

Hamburg Islamist knife attacker gets life in prison

THURSDAY, MARCH 01, 2018

A Palestinian jihadist who killed one man and wounded six other people in a German supermarket knife rampage last year was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison.

Police shoot, injure attacker outside Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral

TUESDAY, JUNE 06, 2017

PARIS - French police shot and injured a man who had attacked an officer with a hammer outside Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral on Tuesday, prompting an anti-terror investigation.

British parliament attack: What we know

THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2017

London - Three people were killed in an "Islamist-related" attack in the heart of London on Wednesday when a man mowed down pedestrians on a bridge, then stabbed a police officer outside parliament before being shot dead. Here is what we know about the deadliest attack in Britain since 2005.

Police raid in Birmingham following London attack: reports