Woman held after going on stabbing spree at Hamburg train station

A German woman accused of a mass stabbing attack at a train station in Hamburg was to appear before a judge on May 24, while the number of victims wounded rose to 18, the police said.

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The 39-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene of the attack on May 23 at Hamburg's main station. The incident stunned the city in the middle of the evening rush hour.

Hamburg police spokesman Florian Abbenseth said there was no evidence of a "political motive", and the woman may have been "experiencing a psychological emergency".

She was arrested without resistance after the attack, which emergency services said had left at least four victims with life-threatening injuries.

The toll from the stabbing spree — the latest in a series of violent attacks to stun Germany — has now risen to 18 wounded, from an initial figure of 12 and then 17, the police said.

The victims range in age from 19 to 85, according to the BBC.