Germany attack: Police arrest suspected knifeman

German police have arrested a man suspected of killing three people and injuring another eight in Friday's knife attack in the western city of Solingen, a regional minister has said, Report informs referring to BBC.

"The man we’ve really been looking for the whole day has just been taken into custody," Herbert Reul, the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state, told ARD public TV late on Saturday.

He gave no details, but Germany's Bild and Spiegel news websites reported that the suspect, in dirty blood-stained clothes, had given himself up.

Two men, aged 56 and 67, and a 56-year-old woman were stabbed to death during a festival, in what Chancellor Olaf Scholz described as a "horrific act".