Hamburg airport remains closed as police deal with 'hostage situation'
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Hamburg airport remains closed as police deal with 'hostage situation'
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Hamburg airport remained closed on Sunday, authorities said, as police dealt with a hostage situation involving a suspected armed man in a custody dispute.
The airport closed for all takeoffs and landings on Saturday evening after police arrived in large numbers on the scene to deal with a man who drove through a barrier onto the grounds of the airport with a child.
The car with the 35-year-old man and 4-year-old girl was parked under a Turkish Airlines plane, a police spokesperson said.
"We must currently assume that he is in possession of a live firearm and possibly also explosive devices of an unknown type," the police posted on Sunday on the social media platform X.
Negotiators are in contact with the person in the car and communicating through a translator in Turkish, police said.
Police said that their main priority was the protection of the child, who they said was physically fine based on their current information.
