• HubertManne@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Hamburg airport remained closed on Sunday, authorities said, as police dealt with a hostage situation involving a suspected armed man in a custody dispute.

    The airport closed for all takeoffs and landings on Saturday evening after police arrived in large numbers on the scene to deal with a man who drove through a barrier onto the grounds of the airport with a child.

    The car with the 35-year-old man and 4-year-old girl was parked under a Turkish Airlines plane, a police spokesperson said.

    “We must currently assume that he is in possession of a live firearm and possibly also explosive devices of an unknown type,” the police posted on Sunday on the social media platform X.