The first shooting occurred just after the clock 19 on Thursday evening, when a 56-year-old pedestrian met a for her unknown man on a sidewalk in the Nürnbergstadsdelen Sankt Johannis. The man stabbed the woman in the upper body with a knife before he fled from the scene, reports the radio station Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Over two hours later occurred the next knivattack when a 26-year-old woman who was on the way home and was surprised by an unknown knivman. Shortly thereafter, a third woman, a 34-year-old, for a similar assault.
was taken to hospital for emergency surgery and two of them reported to receive treatment for life-threatening injuries.
the Police does not exclude that one and the same perpetrator is behind all three attacks, but currently see no signs of a terrorist motive, reports the radio station. A large polispådrag searching for the perpetrator or perpetrators and have asked the public to get in touch with tips.