BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German police said Friday that a man was seriously wounded in an apparent stabbing at central Berlin’s Holocaust memorial near the US embassy. A suspect was later apprehended.

“A man was seriously injured by an unknown person” at the site, police said, adding that “rescue workers are caring for several people on site who had to witness the events” and that “the victim is undergoing surgery.”

Police later said they had arrested a male suspect near the site of the suspected stabbing.

“We just arrested a male suspect,” police spokesman Florian Nath said. “It’s probably the suspect that attacked the 30-year-old Spanish citizen at 6 p.m. here at the memorial,” he told journalists at the scene.

Nath added later that the suspect “had blood on his hands.”

An AFP photographer witnessed the man approaching police to talk to them at the memorial, about three hours after the attack.

Police then wrestled him to the ground and handcuffed him, with one officer shouting “we have the suspect” to his colleagues.

Before apprehending the suspect, police said they “don’t know anything about [the] motive.”

Police armed with assault rifles were at the cordoned-off Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a somber grid of concrete steles located near the iconic Brandenburg Gate,........

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