Hamburg train station reopened after bomb threat

BERLIN, Aug 19 (Reuters) The main train station in the northern German city of Hamburg was reopened today after being shut for several hours because of a bomb threat, a spokeswoman for rail operator Deutsche Bahn said.

Earlier, police said someone had called city authorities and told them: ''I have hidden a bomb in the main train station.'' The station was evacuated and train traffic was halted while some 160 police searched the station. The Bahn spokeswoman said it would take until 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) before traffic returned to normal.

Today morning, the train station in the northern city of Kiel was shut for five hours while police detained a suspect in a failed July plot to explode bombs on two German trains.

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