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Munich terror threat: five to seven Isis suicide bombers planned New Year's Eve attack | |
(about 2 hours later) | |
Five to seven Islamic State suicide bombers were planning to launch an attack on New Year’s Eve, German authorities have said, as police in Munich evacuated train stations and warned people to stay away. | |
Munich police president Hubertus Andrae said German authorities had been tipped off by a foreign intelligence service that the jihadi group was planning the attacks, the German news agency dpa reported. Andrae said so far there hadn’t been any arrests. | |
Earlier, police had warned of a “serious, imminent threat” and asked people to stay away from the city’s main train station and a second train station in the city’s Pasing neighbourhood. | |
Police spokesman Werner Kraus told the Associated Press that “after evaluating the situation, we started evacuating the train stations and also asked partygoers to stay away from big crowds outside”. | |
The warning came only hours before the city rang in the new year. | |
Despite police warnings to stay away from big crowds, thousands of people were on the streets of Munich at midnight to welcome the new year with fireworks. | |
Dpa reported massive delays in the city’s public transportation system after both train stations were quickly evacuated and trains were no longer stopped there. | |
Cities across Europe have been on edge since a terror attack in Paris in November killed 130 people. | |
A few days after the Paris attack, a soccer stadium in Hannover in central Germany was evacuated after a terror threat against a friendly match between Germany and the Netherlands. The authorities never reported any findings of explosives or concrete attack plans. |