A man has been seriously injured in a stabbing attack at Berlin 's Holocaust memorial, according to German media. The incident happened at around 6pm local time (5pm UK time) on Friday, Tagesspiegel reported, adding police had sealed off the site in the city centre and were carrying out a search.

The police said they had detained a suspect in the assault, which occurred among the labyrinth of concrete slabs at one of the German capital’s most sacrosanct sites.