Bomb scare shuts down Bonn train station
Published: 10 Dec, 2012 CET.
Updated: Mon 10 Dec 2012 16:18 CET
German authorities shut down Bonn's main train station on Monday after a device believed to be a pipe bomb was found in a bag. Many trains were cancelled or delayed while specialists blew up the abandoned hold-all.
Police blocked off the entire building at around 2:00 pm after a passer-by in the station noticed a large bag with no apparent owner on platform one.
Around half an hour later bomb disposal experts detonated the bomb using a water cannon. Inside the bag was, Express regional paper said, a functioning pipe bomb and a clock.
Eye witnesses told police that they saw a young man leave the bag on the platform.
A further false alarm was raised when a suspicious shoe box was found elsewhere in the station shortly after. It turned out to be harmless, however.
Trains to nearby Cologne were re-routed through Bonn-Beuel and taxis put on offer to take stranded travellers. The building remains closed.
The Local/jcw
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Police blocked off the entire building at around 2:00 pm after a passer-by in the station noticed a large bag with no apparent owner on platform one.
Around half an hour later bomb disposal experts detonated the bomb using a water cannon. Inside the bag was, Express regional paper said, a functioning pipe bomb and a clock.
Eye witnesses told police that they saw a young man leave the bag on the platform.
A further false alarm was raised when a suspicious shoe box was found elsewhere in the station shortly after. It turned out to be harmless, however.
Trains to nearby Cologne were re-routed through Bonn-Beuel and taxis put on offer to take stranded travellers. The building remains closed.
The Local/jcw
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