A woman who was taken hostage in a supermarket in Berlin has been freed, police told dpa on Saturday morning.
“The perpetrator has been overpowered and the hostage freed,” a police spokesman said.
A man had taken the woman hostage and threatened her in a supermarket in Berlin’s southern Marienfelde neighbourhood on Friday evening shortly after 10 pm (2000 GMT), police said.
Police mounted a major operation around the supermarket, which belongs to the Rewe chain, on Hildburghauser Strasse near the city’s southern edge.