Police in the German city of Munich reopened two train stations early Friday as authorities continued to investigate an alleged New Year’s Eve terror plot by ISIS suicide bombers.
Munich police president Hubertus Andrae said German authorities had been tipped off by a foreign intelligence service that ISIS was planning attacks with five to seven suicide bombers, the German news agency dpa reported. Andrae said so far there hadn’t been any arrests. Some local media outlets reported that the French intelligence service had alerted their German counterparts to the possible attack.
Bavarian state television reported that the suspected would-be bombers were seven Iraqi nationals who resided in Munich and are known to German authorities by name.
“I believe this decision was right because I think we cannot take unnecessary risks when we are dealing with such concrete threats, concrete locations, and a concrete time,” Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told reporters.
Authorities first alerted citizens to the “serious, imminent” threat approximately 80 minutes before midnight in the city of 1.3 million. A Facebook message from the Munich police said that according to “serious information, there will be an attack tonight.”
Munich’s main train station was evacuated, as was a second train station in the western Pasing neighborhood, and New Year’s revelers were warned to stay away from large crowds. Dpa reported massive delays in the city’s public transportation system after the closure of both stations.
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SOURCE: Fox News, The Associated Press, Sky News
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