Bild has learned of the evacuation of people from Germany's Passau train station due to a bomb threat

In Germany, people were evacuated at the railway station in the city of Passau because of a bomb threat. This was reported by the newspaper Bild on January 18.

"Because of the threat of explosion was evacuated railway station in Passau," - stated in the material.

According to the publication, the railway company Deutsche Bahn received a message that bombs were planted in two ICE trains. The train going to Vienna, had to stop in Passau because of the threat of explosion.

Police are on the scene, searching passengers' luggage with the help of specially trained dogs. Also another ICE train in the Austrian city of Scherding, which is a few kilometers from Passau, is being examined for explosives.

"No trains are arriving or departing," Bild quoted a spokesman for the Passau federal police as saying.

What happened in Magdeburg: a car drove into the crowd at the Christmas fair

There are dead and wounded

Earlier, on December 20, 2024, it was reported that a car collided with a crowd at a Christmas fair in the city of Magdeburg in Germany. The Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, Rainer Erich Haseloff ("Christian Democratic Union"), reported that at least two people, including a child, were killed in Magdeburg. Later it became known about the deaths of three more people.

The representative of the German government in the state of Saxony-Anhalt Matthias Schuppe called a terrorist attack hit a car on a crowd of people at the Christmas market. Later it became known about the detention of a suspect in a hit-and-run in Magdeburg. In the press service of the local police specified that the man could act alone.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and the injured. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Polish President Andrzej Duda and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer also expressed their condolences.