As reported earlier today, an Iranian went on a rampage on a bus in the German city of Lübeck, stabbing a number of people and leaving behind a backpack full of fire accelerants.

Egri Nök sends this update, including a revised casualty figure:

Ten wounded, three of them severely Bodo Z. (74) a retired carpenter from Lübeck and a passenger, tells Bild: “I was going to Travemünde to play outdoor chess. A colleague and I were sitting on the back left, behind the articulation. The man had caught my attention because he was dressed much too warmly. He wore a shirt, a pullover, a jacket with a fur collar. Suddenly there was smoke in the front of the bus, and a commotion. “Then the man ran towards the back and stabbed a man in a wheelchair. Then he attacked my chess friend, who was sitting in the aisle. He was stabbed in the shoulder. After that, everyone left the bus and there was screaming. I left the bus, too, and thought to myself, I have to do something, and grabbed a branch. I saw how, by the bus, two men were wrangling with the attacker. I smacked him over the head with the branch. After that, he was quiet.”

Below are three videos about the incident. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.

1. A TV news report on what happened in Lübeck, translated by Ava Lon:

2. An eyewitness interview, translated by Egri Nök:

3. An interview with the bus driver, translated by Egri Nök:

Video transcript #1:

00:00 In Lübeck several people were wounded in an attack on a service bus. This was 00:05 confirmed by the police. A man allegedly pulled out a knife and indiscriminately 00:10 stabbed the passengers. The driver reportedly stopped the bus right away and opened the doors. 00:15 That way the passengers were able to flee. The police were largely deployed 00:20 around the place of the crime in the Kücknitz district, which was closed off. The suspect 00:25 was arrested. There’s nothing known about his motives for now. Special operations forces 00:30 are allegedly still investigating a backpack on the bus, looking for explosives.



Video transcript #2:

00:06 So we were sitting in bus 30, and we had just departed from Sonnenstraße, and 00:12 we were just going through the traffic light, towards Travemünder Landstraße, 00:16 and suddenly there was yelling, and fire was burning in the middle. 00:20 And the perpetrator came towards the back, and he was wearing sunglasses, 00:24 and a winter coat, and he was yelling, and indiscriminately attacking people with a knife. 00:28 And then, yeah, we tried to defend ourselves. 00:32 And the bus driver was already stopping the bus because he saw the fire. 00:35 And we all ran outside, and the fire — um, the bus driver wanted to extinguish the fire, 00:38 and the perpetrator attacked the bus driver from behind. 00:42 And we all just ran this way in panic. Yeah. 00:47 And then the police already arrived. —And then the police arrived and they —? 00:50 I yelled at them, they had their window down. 00:53 It had caught their attention how the bus suddenly stopped, because of the fire. 00:59 And the perpetrator was arrested by the patrol officers? —Exactly.



Video transcript #3: