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German police freed two people from a locked room at a Volksbank branch in Sinzig after responding to a hostage alarm, according to the Associated Press.
Police said they were alerted to the situation at the Volksbank branch in Sinzig, a town of about 17,000 people in the Rhine valley near Koblenz, at about 9 a.m. local time.
Regional police said they believed there were “several perpetrators and hostages” in the bank, and that the driver of an armored van was a hostage.
After hours of preparations, police said special forces entered the bank shortly before 3 p.m., and freed two people unhurt from a locked room.
Police said they found no hostage-takers, and they said it appeared the perpetrator or perpetrators had left immediately after locking the two people into the vault, though it was not clear how that happened.
Police did not indicate whether the perpetrators made away with any cash or valuables.