Train stations in Munich have reopened and trains are running today, but a terror warning remains active.
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German police Friday, January 1, lifted an alert of an imminent attack in Munich, hours after two key train stations were evacuated over fears that a New Year suicide bomb assault was being planned.
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Just over an hour before the celebrations began in Munich, police ordered the evacuation of the city’s main rail station and another station in the west of the city after being tipped off about a possible “terror attack”.
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They said they had received a “very concrete tip” around 7:40 p.m. from intelligence sources in France and the United States indicating that militants from Iraq and Syria were planning to carry out attacks.
Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae said it was unclear whether the suspects are still in the city or even in Germany.
A police spokeswoman said the tip-off about a planned IS suicide bombing had come from the French secret service.
Police officers in Germany ahead of New Year celebrations.
Police officials in Munich were quoted in German media reports saying that suspects may have been deployed in pairs to detonate their suicide attacks at different locations.
Shortly before Munich rang in the new year, police evacuated the main train station and the Pasing station.
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The Munich police president said that there had been no arrests at the current moment.
154-a-16-(Sajjan Gohel (SAH’-zhahn GOH’-hehl), director for worldwide security, Asia Pacific Foundation, in AP interview)-“number of occasions”-Security analyst Sajjan Gohel says the terror threat in Munich comes as no surprise”.
Bild is reporting that authorities have the names of the suspects after a tip-off. The action by German authorities added to jitters in many capitals as Europe ushered in the New Year with heightened security after a year of militant attacks.
Belgian police said late on Thursday three people were being held for questioning as part of an investigation into the plot.
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Security officials said that the severity of the threat level had been comparable with the terror warning in Hanover in November 2015, when a friendly soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands was called off amid warnings of an impending attack.
