PARIS — The police in Paris opened hearth and “neutralized” on a person who attacked a number of individuals early Wednesday morning on the Gare du Nord prepare station, one of many capital’s busiest transit hubs, the French authorities mentioned.

Gérald Darmanin, the French inside minister, mentioned on Twitter that “a person injured a number of individuals this morning at Gare du Nord.”

“He was rapidly neutralized,” Mr. Darmanin mentioned.

It was not instantly clear what sort of weapon the person was wielding, how many individuals he had injured and the way severely, and what had motivated the assault.

Gare du Nord is likely one of the largest prepare stations in Paris, with service to northern France and past, together with a Eurostar terminal for vacationers heading to the UK.

An authority for the TER Hauts-de-France, a regional department of France’s nationwide railway serving northern France, mentioned on Twitter that the person “was introduced underneath management, emergency providers intervened and the individual was taken away.”

The police established a safety perimeter and prepare site visitors was disrupted, “however the station continues to be getting used usually,” the authority added.

The assault got here practically three weeks after a gunman killed three individuals and wounded three others at a Kurdish group heart, a hair salon and a restaurant in central Paris in what French officers mentioned was a racially-motivated assault towards foreigners.

The suspect in that case, a 69-year-old man who advised the police he had a “pathological” hatred of foreigners, was indicted on fees of homicide and tried homicide with a racist motive. He stays in custody.