The state interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Herbert Reul, is in Solingen at the scene of a stabbing that left three dead and four injured. He went to the scene to assess the situation, a dpa reporter said. Emergency workers are responding to the stabbing that occurred on Friday evening when a man killed three people at the 650th anniversary celebrations in Solingen. The perpetrator is on the run, a police spokeswoman said shortly after midnight in Dusseldorf.