Man stabs nine people after Berlin gala

BERLIN, May 27 (Reuters) A knife-wielding man attacked people leaving a gala ceremony for Berlin's new central rail station last night, injuring at least nine before being arrested, police said.

''A crazy man ran down the street stabbing people arbitrarily,'' a policeman at the scene told Reuters.

The attacks occurred shortly after the opening ceremony of the glass-covered, five-storey ''Hauptbahnhof'' in central Berlin, where Chancellor Angela Merkel and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit had given speeches.

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