Terrorists 'planned to detonate three bombs inside German stadium'

Source: The Guardian

Sunday 22 November 2015 12.41 GMT

Terrorists planned to detonate three bombs inside the stadium during a friendly international football match in Hanover last week, an attack that was thwarted by cancelling the match at the last minute, according to a security official.

The official told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that German security agents were tipped off by French counterparts that a terror cell planned to detonate five bombs in Hanover, including three inside the football stadium, one at a bus stop and one at a railway station.

The match, due to be attended by the chancellor, Angela Merkel, and several government ministers, was called off and the stadium quickly evacuated 90 minutes before kick-off on Tuesday night. No specific details of the terrorist threat have emerged until now.

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Even though no explosives were found and no arrests have been made, authorities are working on the assumption that the German cell exists, the official said. German police are now looking for the suspects, and are expected to step up raids in the coming days and weeks in the hope of uncovering new information.


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