BERLIN (AP) — An assailant poured a liquid over a woman on a tram in eastern Germany on Sunday and set her on fire, police said. The woman was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, while the attacker fled.

Pictures from the scene in Gera, a German city in the eastern region of Thuringia, show burned upholstery in a public tram following the distressing daylight attack

German police said they are hunting a man who doused his wife with flammable liquid in a tram and set fire to her, causing critical wounds.