German : Police ended a hostage situation in the German city of Dresden on Saturday, after evacuating a shopping mall and shutting a famous Christmas market.
Authorities had evacuated Altmarktgalerie Mall after an armed man reportedly took people hostage in the shopping centre.
Police ordered the Striezelmarkt Christmas market to close nearby and urged people to avoid the area.
News outlet TAG24 earlier cited police as saying that a German man, 40, was believed to have killed his mother, 62, in an apartment building in the Prohlis district of Dresden, south-east of the city centre.
Newspaper Bild earlier reported that an armed man had killed a woman, then stormed a local radio station and fired shots before fleeing into a shopping mall, where he took several hostages.
