Overview
- Police detained a 39-year-old Bulgarian woman hours after Thursday evening's stabbings of four Germans in downtown Sofia.
- Investigators say the first assault near a subway station injured a German man and woman about 60 to 65, followed soon by a second attack that wounded two German women aged 26 and 30.
- Officials report no deaths, and all four received medical care, with two undergoing surgery at Pirogov University Hospital according to local reports.
- The Interior Ministry circulated a suspect photo overnight, and officers later arrested the woman at a home in Sofia’s Simeonovo district.
- Police have not identified a motive and are examining whether the victims were targeted for being German, an acute concern in a busy capital popular with visitors.