Hamburg airport has been closed to passengers and flights have been axed after a man with a child rammed his car through security and entered the premises.
The armed man broke through a gate with his car at around 8pm local time on Saturday and fired twice into the air with a weapon, federal police said. He was also said to have thrown two burning bottles out of the vehicle.No one is understood to have been injured but passengers are being urged not to travel to the airport.It comes after the man's wife called police about a possible child abduction.A stand-off between the man and officers has now lasted more than 12 hours.
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