On Thursday evening there was a bomb alarm in Bremerhaven, Germany. After a bomb threat at Klinikum Mitte, many emergency services were on site and brought the patients to safety. Moments later, they were able to release everything.
No bomb was found during a search of the hospital, a police spokeswoman said on Thursday evening. Previously, fire and rescue services had patients from six stations in safety. Some of them were transported by ambulance to the Klinikum am Bürgerpark.
According to initial information, clinic staff received the bomb threat by phone on Thursday afternoon. An unknown person claimed to have placed a bomb in the building. The staff then notified the police, who in turn searched the hospital with explosives detecting dogs. She also called on Twitter to avoid the area around the hospital north of the city center.
Patients must be transferred back on Friday
After the police found no explosives, they lifted the barriers around the site of the incident around 9 p.m. The patients are expected to be transferred back on Friday. There was initially no information about the perpetrator of the threat on Thursday evening, the police are investigating.
Source: Krone
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