Manhunt underway after deadly knife attack at German city festival

A knife attack at a local festival in the German city of Solingen late Friday killed three and injured eight with police still searching for the perpetrator.
Police in the nearby city of Düsseldorf told local media that a “large-scale search” is underway but that there are currently “no clues as to the whereabouts” of the attacker.
There is also currently no clear indication as to the assailant’s motive or profile. Police have scheduled a press conference for 3 p.m. local time.
“The brutal attack on the city festival in Solingen has shocked us deeply,” German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said Saturday morning on X. “Our security authorities are doing everything they can to catch the perpetrator and determine the background to the attack.”
Faeser said she is keeping in regular contact with Herbert Reul, interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populated state. NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul and our security authorities.
Speaking of the attack, Reul said: “Out of nowhere someone randomly stabs people. We can’t say anything about the person or the motive.” 
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the “full force of the law must be applied” to the Solingen attack. “Everything must now be done to ensure that the law is enforced,” Scholz said Saturday at an election rally in Stahnsdorf, in his constituency in Brandenburg.
“We must not accept something like this in our society and must never put up with it,” Scholz said.
“I am deeply shocked by this terrible attack on innocent citizens,” European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said on X. “Hate and violence must have no place in our society.”
Hans von der Burchard contributed reporting.