Updated July 29, 2017 01:37:08

Photo: Police arrested the assailant after he fled the scene. (AP: DPA/Paul Weidenbaum)

One person has been killed and four others injured in a knife attack in a supermarket in the northern German city of Hamburg, the city's police said.

The assailant entered the supermarket in the Barmbek district on Friday afternoon and stabbed one person, who died at the scene, police said.

As he fled, he wounded another four people.

He was overwhelmed by passers-by and slightly injured in the process, police said.

Officers then arrested the man.

Police said they do not yet have any information on the assailant's motive, but there was no indication that there were any further attackers.

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Topics: law-crime-and-justice, germany

First posted July 29, 2017 00:45:05