ISIS ‘planned Munich terror attack on New Year’s Eve’ sparking train station

After receiving news of the possible ISIS terror threat, police requested in a tweet that the Munich public avoid large gatherings in the city.

Munich’s main train station was evacuated, as was a second train station in the western Pasing neighborhood, and New Year’s revelers were warned to stay away from large crowds.

In New York on Thursday, police were taking extraordinary measures to ensure security for the traditional New Year’s Eve dropping of the crystal ball in Times Square, where more than a million people were expected.

“Despite the gravity of the situation, we let us not take: Happy new year to you all!”

Two stations were shut down about an hour before midnight on New Year’s Eve following advice from a “friendly” country that Daesh (so-called Islamic Sate) militants were planning a suicide bomb attack.

German police are hunting seven suspected suicide bombers who planned to blow themselves up in Munich train stations during the New Year’s Eve celebrations, it has been reported.

Days after attacks in Paris in November, in which 130 people were killed, a football stadium in Hannover was evacuated after a threat was made against a friendly match between Germany and the Netherlands.

On Twitter and Facebook, Munich police asked people to avoid crowded places amid the ongoing New Year celebrations.

Police are pictured outside the Munich train station on December 31, 2015.

The main station and Pasing station have been evacuated and trains are no longer stopping there, police said.

Regional public television Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) reported that the intelligence concerning possible Daesh attacks in Munich first came from USA authorities on Thursday night and soon after French intelligence service conveyed similar information to their German counterparts.

There is, as before, a high threat of terror, ‘ a police spokesman said.

Opposition to her stance grew at home and overseas after two of the suicide bombers in the Paris attacks were found to have carried fake Syrian passports.

“Current indications show that a terror attack is being planned in Munich”.

Festivities in the Belgian capital, Brussels, were canceled after authorities unveiled another suspected holiday terror plot.

Police had issued an alert late Thursday following a tip-off from a foreign intelligence service that suggested an assault was being planned for midnight.