A SYRIAN man was ordered on Sunday to be held on suspicion of murder and membership in a terrorist organisation in connection with the Solingen knife attack that left three dead and eight wounded at a festival.

A judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe ordered Issa Al H held pending further investigation after federal prosecutors said that he shared the radical ideology of the Islamic State extremist group, and was acting on those beliefs when he stabbed his victims repeatedly from behind in the head and upper body.

The ruling came after the suspect turned himself in, saying that he was responsible for the attack, police said.