Authorities closed down the central train station at Kaiserslautern in western Germany on Tuesday following a bomb threat.
The train station reopened after several hours, with police reporting that “following a thorough search of the station by police officers and specialist dogs, no suspicious objects were found.”
Another threat was directed at the Westpfalz hospital, where police gave the all-clear in the evening.
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Police spokesman Bernhard Christian Erfort explained: “Hospitals require a particularly sensitive and coordinated approach. For tactical reasons, the police are therefore not providing any details of the measures taken.”
An evacuation of the hospital was not necessary.
Police said a telephone threat was received at a police station shortly before 5 pm (1600 GMT) on Tuesday afternoon.
The main station was evacuated as a precaution and was cordoned off over a wide area, with train services suspended.
The second threat to the hospital followed about an hour later.
