Sources: Man who attacked children in Duisburg was stopped by father

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Forensics officers stand at the scene of the attack on two children, a few meters away from a school. In a small parking lot, the police have stretched flutter tape and cordoned everything off. Christoph Reichwein/dpa
Forensics officers stand at the scene of the attack on two children, a few meters away from a school. In a small parking lot, the police have stretched flutter tape and cordoned everything off. Christoph Reichwein/dpa

A man who attacked two children with a knife in the western German city of Duisburg was stopped and disarmed by his own father, police sources told dpa on Thursday.

The 69-year-old father held down his 21-year-old son until police arrived. The children are in hospital and their lives are not in danger.

The son had stabbed the 9-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy before a passer-by shouted and threw a torch at him. The attacker ran off before being confronted by his father, while the two injured children managed to reach a nearby school.

The son told his father that information on his mobile phone would explain his motive.

According to the police, the suspect is a German-Bulgarian man.

A police vehicle is parked in front of the school about 300 meters from the crime scene, where the children had fled after the attack. Christoph Reichwein/dpa
A police vehicle is parked in front of the school about 300 meters from the crime scene, where the children had fled after the attack. Christoph Reichwein/dpa
A view of the crime scene without candles or flowers, only the yellow police markings of the knife attack on two children the day before. According to investigators, two nine and ten-year-old schoolchildren were seriously injured in Duisburg on Wednesday - the motive of the alleged perpetrator initially remained unknown. Christoph Reichwein/dpa
A view of the crime scene without candles or flowers, only the yellow police markings of the knife attack on two children the day before. According to investigators, two nine and ten-year-old schoolchildren were seriously injured in Duisburg on Wednesday - the motive of the alleged perpetrator initially remained unknown. Christoph Reichwein/dpa