Cologne Lockdown! Armed Woman Looking Around
Cologne Lockdown! Armed Woman Looking Around
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COLOGNE - German police have reportedly arrested five people near a government building in Cologne after witnesses saw an armed woman inside.
A suspect had just been detained on a different matter at the building in Germany's fourth largest city when witnesses said they saw the armed woman walking around in the building.
Employees have been told to stay inside while the incident is being investigated. There are reports that as many as five people may have been arrested. It is not yet known if the alleged armed person was one of them.
"Police operation at job centre in Luxemburger Street due to threatening behaviour. Information over bomb threat is false," police said in a tweet.
The incident comes with Germany on high alert after the country was rocked by four bloody attacks in a week.
The deadliest attack came last Friday when a German-Iranian teenager who was born and raised in Munich opened fire at a shopping mall, killing nine people before turning the gun on himself.
He had been under psychiatric treatment and investigators say he was obsessed with mass shootings, including Norwegian rightwing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik's 2011 massacre. They have ruled out an Islamist motive, saying the assailant had far-right 'sympathies'.
On July 18, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan or Pakistan slashed train passengers and a passer-by with an axe and a knife in Wuerzburg before being shot by police.
And on Sunday, a failed Syrian asylum seeker blew himself up outside a music festival in Ansbach, wounding 15 people at a nearby cafe after being turned away from the packed open-air venue. ISIS claimed both attacks.
Already steeped in grief and shock, Germans were further rattled by news that a Syrian refugee had killed a 45 year old polish woman with a large kebab knife at a snack bar in the southwestern city of Reutlingen Sunday in what authorities called a personal dispute.
A suspect had just been detained on a different matter at the building in Germany's fourth largest city when witnesses said they saw the armed woman walking around in the building.
Employees have been told to stay inside while the incident is being investigated. There are reports that as many as five people may have been arrested. It is not yet known if the alleged armed person was one of them.
"Police operation at job centre in Luxemburger Street due to threatening behaviour. Information over bomb threat is false," police said in a tweet.
The incident comes with Germany on high alert after the country was rocked by four bloody attacks in a week.
The deadliest attack came last Friday when a German-Iranian teenager who was born and raised in Munich opened fire at a shopping mall, killing nine people before turning the gun on himself.
He had been under psychiatric treatment and investigators say he was obsessed with mass shootings, including Norwegian rightwing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik's 2011 massacre. They have ruled out an Islamist motive, saying the assailant had far-right 'sympathies'.
On July 18, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan or Pakistan slashed train passengers and a passer-by with an axe and a knife in Wuerzburg before being shot by police.
And on Sunday, a failed Syrian asylum seeker blew himself up outside a music festival in Ansbach, wounding 15 people at a nearby cafe after being turned away from the packed open-air venue. ISIS claimed both attacks.
Already steeped in grief and shock, Germans were further rattled by news that a Syrian refugee had killed a 45 year old polish woman with a large kebab knife at a snack bar in the southwestern city of Reutlingen Sunday in what authorities called a personal dispute.
(rnz)
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