Police: checking reports of threat situation at Hamburg school

Police in the German city of Hamburg said on Wednesday that they were checking reports of a threat situation at a school in the Blankenese district after local media said two armed people had barricaded themselves in a classroom, report informs via Reuters.

Police have begun escorting pupils from the school, they said, without naming the school.

Tabloid Bild said the district had been cordoned off and a special police unit was storming the school building.

Hamburg was recently the scene of an hostage standoff at the airport that had forced authorities to close the busy hub for hours.