Hamburg train station shut after bomb threat

The train station in the northern German city of Hamburg was shut yesterday because of a bomb threat, police said. A spokesman for the city police said someone had called city authorities and told them: "I have hidden a bomb in the main train...

The train station in the northern German city of Hamburg was shut yesterday because of a bomb threat, police said.

A spokesman for the city police said someone had called city authorities and told them: "I have hidden a bomb in the main train station."

Earlier in the day, the train station in the northern city of Kiel was shut for five hours while police detained a suspect in a failed July plot to explode bombs on two German trains.

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