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'No one was hurt,' police say announcing end to hostage-taking situation at bank in Sinzig

Police said a situation which saw armed robbers taking several people hostage at a German bank in the town of Sinzig earlier on Friday has ended, adding that none of the victims were hurt in the incident.

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00:01German police announced that a hostage situation at a bank in the town of Sinzig had ended after special force
00:07police units freed two people unharmed from a vault where they had been locked up.
00:12Police noted that the suspects did manage to escape and, as of Friday evening, are still on the run.
00:19Officers entered the bank branch in the western German town, but there were no signs of any suspects, indicating that
00:25they may have fled immediately after locking the victims in the vault.
00:29The standoff began around 9 a.m. local time, with famous German newspaper Bild reporting that the suspects intercepted an
00:36armored van and threatened customers inside the branch.
00:40Police say the driver of the cash transport was among those locked up by the suspects.
00:45Officers responded to the scene after an automatically triggered emergency alarm sounded, summoning the local force, who cordoned off the
00:52cobblestone center of the town and established a security perimeter.
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