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German police ends hostage situation at supermarket

Dresden police say that a hostage situation on Saturday has ended with the suspected hostage-taker injured and in police custody, while the hostages are unhurt. Police say that the man's thinking appeared to be highly confused. A spokesperson says police are proceeding from the assumption that the suspect is suffering from a mental illness.

Anadolu Agency WORLD
Published December 10,2022
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German police said they apprehended the gunman who had taken two people hostage at a supermarket in the eastern German city of Dresden on Saturday.

"We arrested the 40-year-old gunman. Two hostages are now free and safe," police spokesman Thomas Geithner told reporters at the scene.

Earlier on Saturday, the police cordoned off the area, and urged people not to go to the Dresden old town. The popular Christmas market (Striezelmarkt) was also closed.

Local media reported that the gunman fired shots at a building near the main train station earlier Saturday, and later fled to the Altmarkt-Galerie mall in Dresden, where he had taken several people hostage.