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Police were successful in severely wounding the\u00a0captor\u00a0who had taken a girl\u00a0hostage\u00a0in the\u00a0Breslauer\u00a0Platz area here on Monday.<\/p>\n
An official press release by the\u00a0Cologne Police\u00a0confirmed that the hostage-taking situation occurred at a pharmacy at\u00a0Cologne Central Station.\u00a0Two people were injured by the\u00a0captor\u00a0before he took the girl\u00a0hostag<\/p>\n
The police revealed that the\u00a0captor\u00a0had lit a Molotov cocktail in a restaurant which wounded a 14-year-old girl. The attacker then ran out of the restaurant and went to a pharmacy in the vicinity, where he took the woman hostage, according to\u00a0Sputnik.<\/p>\n
The identity of the culprit and the\u00a0hostage\u00a0have not been revealed. Immediate medical care was provided to the hostage as she was injured while being held. The detained captor has been resuscitated as he continues receiving intensive medical care after being ‘severely wounded’ in the siege.<\/p>\n
German police\u00a0later added that a passport had been found at the pharmacy, which had been issued to a 55-year-old Syrian man who has permission to stay in\u00a0Germany\u00a0till mid-2021.<\/p>\n
The police are investigating the motive behind the hostage-taking, and have not ruled out terror linkages, reports\u00a0Sputnik.<\/p>\n
The crime scene was cordoned off, as trains were delayed during the siege. The area has regained normalcy, and trains have gradually started plying on the route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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