According to the Bild newspaper, the attacker shouted "Allahu Akbar." The attacker's motive so far has been unclear. A representative of the police press service told Sputnik that it is unclear whether the incident is a terror attack.
The attacker was identified as an asylum seeker named Ahmad A. who was born in the UAE. He stabbed a 50-year-old German man to death at an Edeka supermarket and injured six others.
Later on Friday, German police conducted a security operation at a shelter on Hamburg’s northern outskirts linked to the failed asylum seeker who stabbed a person to death in Hamburg. Police officers in heavy riot gear searched a 590-bed asylum shelter Langenhorn where the knifeman had lived and had been radicalized, according to the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper.
Hamburg Mayor Olaf Scholz said the 26-year-old had been motivated by hate. He had been targeted for deportation but it had been put off as he lacked identity papers.
The supermarket incident is another instance in a series of Islamist knife, ax and truck attacks in Germany that have left dozens of people dead or wounded since last year.
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