The homeland poured liquid on a woman on Sunday's tram of East Germany and shot her. The woman was taken to hospital with threatening of life, while the attacker fled.

According to the police, no other people were injured in the incident in Gera, the German government, the German agency DPA reported. The passengers stopped the tram, pressing the urgent button, and the attacker was the occasion of the escape.

The tram driver immediately started to extinguish the flames, and the 46-year-old woman was taken to hospital with helicopter.

The police searched for the attacker. It was not immediately clear what prompted the attack or what liquid was.