[Source: Reuters]

Three people were killed and four others seriously wounded in a stabbing attack at a festival on Friday night in the western German city of Solingen, police said.

They said that at around 10 p.m. a single, unidentified man attacked multiple people and that the perpetrator was still at large.

Fatal stabbings and shootings in Germany are relatively uncommon.

The police said the attack occurred at a festival to honor the town’s 650th anniversary.

Solingen is in North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany’s most populous state, and it borders the Netherlands.

The state’s interior minister, Herbert Reul, visited the scene, telling reporters it was a targeted attack on human life but declining to speculate on the motive.

Fatal stabbings and shootings in Germany are relatively uncommon.

The police said the attack occurred at a festival to honor the town’s 650th anniversary.

Solingen is in North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany’s most populous state, and it borders the Netherlands.

The state’s interior minister, Herbert Reul, visited the scene, telling reporters it was a targeted attack on human life but declining to speculate on the motive.