Hostage situation at Hamburg airport ends after 6 hours: hostage taker arrested, child (4) unharmed

After more than 18 hours of negotiations, the hostage situation at the airport of Hamburg, Germany, has ended. Last night an armed man managed to drive the car onto the tarmac. He stopped at a Turkish Airlines plane and allegedly demanded to be taken to Turkey with his four-year-old daughter. The police are currently investigating whether the perpetrator had explosives in his car, police spokeswoman Sandra Levgrün said. The emergency services assume there is a custody dispute. Air traffic to and from the airport had been suspended all this time.

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