Police arrest suspect in German festival ‘terror attack’ after Islamic State claims responsibility

German police on Saturday arrested the man suspected of killing three people and wounding eight others in a stabbing rampage at a festival in Solingen.

“We have just arrested the true suspect,” the state’s interior minister Herbert Reul said on Saturday night.

Officers said the man being held is 26 and admitted to carrying out the attack.

Hours earlier, Islamic State claimed responsibility for the stabbings in which the suspect deliberately cut at his victims’ throats.

In a statement on its official mouthpiece Amaq...