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Monday, October 15, 2018
From the Liveblog of
Monday, October 15, 2018
Cologne hostage is a woman; police in touch with attacker
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleGerman police said an unknown man believed to be armed had taken a woman hostage in a pharmacy inside Cologne’s central railway station on Monday.
“Eyewitnesses reported hearing shots, others spoke of smoke bombs, but we cannot confirm any of that so far,” a police spokesman tells news channel NTV.
“We have made contact with the attacker,” he says, adding that police were trying to clarify “what does this man want, what are his demands, and is he armed?”
Police commandos are deployed and the busy railway station was closed off to all passengers and trains.
— AFP
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