Three killed in stabbings in German town of Wuerzburg

Emergency personnel is seen in the city center in Wuerzburg, southern Germany on June 25, 2021. - Several people were killed and others injured on Friday, June 25, 2021 in the southern German city of Wuerzburg, police said, with media reporting a knife attack. (Photo by BAUERNFEIND / NEWS5 / AFP) (Photo by BAUERNFEIND/NEWS5/AFP via Getty Images)
Emergency personnel is seen in the city center in Wuerzburg, southern Germany on June 25, 2021. - Several people were killed and others injured on Friday, June 25, 2021 in the southern German city of Wuerzburg, police said, with media reporting a knife attack. (Photo by BAUERNFEIND / NEWS5 / AFP) (Photo by BAUERNFEIND/NEWS5/AFP via Getty Images) (BAUERNFEIND via Getty Images)

(Reuters) - Three people were killed and six wounded in a stabbing attack in the German town of Wuerzburg on Friday, Bild newspaper reported, adding police had stopped the suspected perpetrator with a shot to the leg.

Police said people had been killed and injured and that an attacker had been shot, but did not give details.

The situation was now under control, police said.

There was no word yet on the possible motive for the attack.

"The attacker was overpowered after police used a firearm," Lower Franconia police said on Twitter. "There are no indications of a second suspect. There is NO danger to the population."

Videos posted on social media showed a young man seemingly holding a knife being warded off by other men holding chairs until police arrived. Another video appeared to show blood on the ground.

The videos matched the reported location of the attacks on and around Wuerzburg's central Barbarossaplatz, though it was not immediately possible to confirm when they had been made.

Wuerzburg is a city of some 130,000 people south-east of Frankfurt.

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