[News] Major stabbing incident on a bus in Germany - at least 14 wounded.

[larus]

Doesn’t sound good. Let’s hope that there’s no casualties.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/20/knife-attack-german-bus-least-14-wounded-stabbing-city-ofluebeck/

 

[Mr deez]

I think the title of your thread tells us there certainly is casualties.

 

[TomandJerry]

I think the title of your thread tells us there certainly is casualties.

 

[el punal]

I think the title of your thread tells us there certainly is casualties.

I think he means fatalities.

 

[larus]

I think the title of your thread tells us there certainly is casualties.

Is this really a thread to try to be pedantic on? Sorry that I missed the word “serious” out before casualties.

 

[spence]

1 dead according to twiiter

 

[knocky1]

Is this really a thread to try to be pedantic on? Sorry that I missed the word “serious” out before casualties.

There is another missing word you are waiting for.

 

[Gazwag]

1 dead according to twiiter

Fourteen people have been wounded, some seriously, in a knife attack on a bus in the German city of Luebeck, local reports say.

Police in the city, in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, said a suspect had been taken into custody.

A police spokesperson confirmed that no one was killed in the attacks. An area surrounding a bus stop in the Kuecknitz neighbourhood was sealed off.

Pictures from the scene showed a public bus at the side of the road.

 

[Machiavelli]

Wonderful from The Telegraph. Unlike other media sources, this article finishes by linking the attack with Islamists (and then providing a link to its 'Terrorism' section)

 

[larus]

Wonderful from The Telegraph. Unlike other media sources, this article finishes by linking the attack with Islamists (and then providing a link to its 'Terrorism' section)

I know it’s not PC, but what do you think most people will think when they hear this type of story. A very high percentage will be wondering if it is linked to IS/Islam etc. Of course, they aren’t always, but there have been a lot so it’s not an unexpected assumption.

Their actual words were
While the motive has not been established, Germany has been on high alert after several deadly Islamist extremist attacks.

 

[studio150]

I know it’s not PC, but what do you think most people will think when they hear this type of story. A very high percentage will be wondering if it is linked to IS/Islam etc. Of course, they aren’t always, but there have been a lot so it’s not an unexpected assumption.

Their actual words were
While the motive has not been established, Germany has been on high alert after several deadly Islamist extremist attacks.

The point is that until the attacker is identified together with their motives the other reports have stayed silent and not made any reference to extremists but the Telegraph are click-baiting by linking to theor terrorist pages.

 

[spence]

The point is that until the attacker is identified together with their motives the other reports have stayed silent and not made any reference to extremists but the Telegraph are click-baiting by linking to theor terrorist pages.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5974713/Knifeman-wounds-14-people-rampage-bus-Germany.html

 

[schmunk]

Wonderful from The Telegraph. Unlike other media sources, this article finishes by linking the attack with Islamists (and then providing a link to its 'Terrorism' section)

Machiavellian, indeed...

 

[carlzeiss]

According to Lübecker Nachrichten, the attacker is an Iranian man in his mid-30s.

 

[spence]

According to Lübecker Nachrichten, the attacker is an Iranian man in his mid-30s.

Lets be brutality honest. It was never going to be a native German was it ?

 

[worthingseagull123]

An asylum seeker invited by Merkal

how much blood is now on her hands?

 

[knocky1]

An asylum seeker invited by Merkal

how much blood is now on her hands?

32 pints.

 

[Baker lite]

According to Lübecker Nachrichten, the attacker is an Iranian man in his mid-30s.

How dare they assume gender.

 

[vegster]

Thank goodness he was unable to obtain a gun.

 

[Wellesley]

Poor Europe. What have we done? So many innocent lives being lost in the name of political correctness.#FreeTommyRobinson.