A lady is in a life-threatening condition in hospital after a person doused her in a liquid and set her alight while she rode a tram in eastern Germany.
The attacker, who police consider can have been her husband, was in a position to escape after passengers hit the emergency button to stop the tram.
Nobody else is assumed to have been injured within the incident.
The driving force of the tram acted quickly after noticing the flames and used a hearth extinguisher to assist, a police spokeswoman said.
An air ambulance was used to take the 46-year-old woman to the hospital.
A manhunt is now underway for the person behind the attack, with the husband – also aged 46 – the chief goal for the search.
The incident took place in Gera, a city around 40 miles south of Leipzig in Thuringia, at around 10am today local time.
No motivation has been established, and it continues to be unknown what liquid was poured over the lady.
The police spokeswoman said the driving force and other passengers had been offered psychological care.
News of the attack got here after an arsonist set a person on fire in Latest York City’s Times Square within the early hours of this morning.
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The person was left with burns across his arms and face, with police unsure if the incident was targeted or random.
Steve Ortiz, a close-by resident, told Eyewitness News: ‘I don’t understand, just very inhumane. Especially in the course of Times Square, it’s crazy, it doesn’t make any sense.’
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