{"id":414991,"date":"2023-03-11T09:25:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T06:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=414991"},"modified":"2023-03-11T09:46:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T06:46:19","slug":"german-police-arrests-a-suspect-in-southwest-karlsruhe-for-holding-multiple-people-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/german-police-arrests-a-suspect-in-southwest-karlsruhe-for-holding-multiple-people-hostage\/","title":{"rendered":"German police arrests a suspect in southwest Karlsruhe for holding multiple people hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"

KARLSRUHE, Germany, March 10 (SONNA) – German police said on Friday it had arrested a male suspect after a special unit stormed a pharmacy in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe where multiple people had been held hostage for hours.<\/p>\n

A number of explosions were heard when officers in tactical gear entered the pharmacy in the city centre after first arriving on the scene at around 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

“A special unit entered the pharmacy at 21:10; a male suspect was arrested,” Karlsruhe police said on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Officers restrained a man they had brought out of the pharmacy, covered his head in a blanket and bundled him into a car.<\/p>\n

The building was being searched and there appeared to be no injuries, they said.<\/p>\n

The incident follows Thursday’s\u00a0deadly rampage\u00a0at a Jehovah’s Witnesses hall in Hamburg, putting the country on edge. Gun violence is rare in Germany.<\/p>\n

Earlier police said in a joint statement with prosecutors that there were “multiple” hostages involved.<\/p>\n

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Police had cordoned off Karlsruhe city centre where multiple blue and grey police vehicles with flashing lights lined the streets.<\/p>\n

The Stuttgarter Zeitung reported that two people had been taken hostage and that there was a demand for a ransom of a single-digit million euro sum.<\/p>\n

The police spokesperson declined to comment on the report.<\/p>\n

Earlier Germany’s Bild newspaper had reported that the police were in contact with the alleged hostage-taker.<\/p>\n

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