A person has been detained in connection with a knife attack in Germany which left three people dead and five seriously injured.

It comes following a “large-scale” overnight manhunt around the city of Solingen, involving several police forces.

Police were alerted by witnesses shortly after 9.30pm on Friday, to reports of several people being wounded in a central square, the Fronhof during a festival.

Solingen has about 160,000 residents and is near the bigger city of Dusseldorf and Germany‘s border with the Netherlands.

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