Germany-Holland football match called off after terror attack tip-off

November 18, 2015 09:03

A football friendly between Germany and Holland in the city of Hanover was cancelled 91 minutes before kick-off after police received "concrete information' of a terror attack in the stadium.

Angela Merkel and other leading politicians were due to attend the match on Tuesday, which had been advertised as a gesture of solidarity towards the victims of the Paris attacks.

At a press conference in Hanover, the German interior minister, Thomas de Maizire, said that the decision to call off the match was made after "an increase in tip-offs in the early evening', but refused to comment further on the source and extent of the threat.

However, some German media said the warning had come from a foreign intelligence agency.

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