Police shot and injured a man armed with a knife in Berlin cathedral on Sunday afternoon.

The incident is not believed to be terror-related.

The injured man has not been officially named but is 53 years old according to police. German press identified him as Austrian.

He appeared to be in a “confused state”, according to Welt newspaper. “One of our officers shot a rioting man at Berlin cathedral. He was injured in the legs,” Berlin police said on Twitter.

“A cathedral employee had called the emergency number because a man was rioting in the cathedral with a knife. At the time there were around 100 people there.

“There is currently no evidence of a terrorist or Islamist motive.”

The incident took place at Berlin’s Protestant cathedral on Museum Island, one of the city’s best-known landmarks that draws thousands of tourists.