<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">A 14-year-old girl has died and a 13-year-old girl was seriously injured following a knife attack by a man whilst they were on their way to school early on Monday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>German police in the southwestern city of Ulm said the girls were rushed to a hospital following the attack at about 7:30 am in the nearby town of Illerkirchberg - a town of around 5,000 people located to the west of Munich.</div><div><br></div><div>Police arrived at the scene to find that the suspect had fled to a neighbouring building. They later detained three men, one of whom is presumed to be the attacker.</div><div><br></div><div>Wolfgang Juergens, spokesperson for police in the German city of Ulm, gave local broadcaster SWR more information on the attack, saying: "Everything further will come out of the ongoing investigation.”</div><div><br></div><div>The motive for the attack is, as yet, unknown but German news agency dpa reported that police were still trying to determine a possible reason for the man’s actions.</div><div><br></div><div>The German newspaper Bild reported that the attacker had been arrested by police. It also said that the girls had been taken to hospital to have their injuries treated.</div><div><br></div><div>This isn’t the first knife attack on German soil this year, back in May, several people were wounded after a man attacked them with a knife on a passenger train near the to the western German city of Aachen. - Yahoosports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>