According to Reuters, a man entered a car through a boarding gate at Hamburg Airport (Germany) and fired two shots into the air. The airport was closed.
The attack occurred around 8 pm local time. The man threw two burning bottles – “a type of Molotov cocktail” – from the car, Federal Police spokesman Thomas Herbert said. Image.
A police spokesman said the suspect’s four-year-old son was in the car. On social network X (formerly Twitter), authorities say they believe this is a hostage situation.
Shortly before the armed man was spotted by security forces at the airport, the woman alerted police and told officers that her husband was on his way to the airport with his son, the newspaper reported. Image.
This was reported by a representative of the airport. Image that “due to a police operation, flights at Hamburg Airport have been suspended since 20:24 and will not resume this Saturday. 27 flights (6 departures and 21 arrivals) with approximately 3,200 passengers are affected. It is currently impossible to predict when operations will resume. Traveling to the airport is also not possible at the moment.”
Author: morning Post
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