"The Dresden Police Department is currently carrying out an operation in downtown Dresden. The background is the suspicion of a hostage situation," the police said in a statement on its website.
German daily Bild 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.
Nobody picked up the phone at the Radio Dresden broadcaster or at the Altmarkt-Galerie shopping mall when called by Reuters.
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The suspect who opened fire earlier on Saturday in downtown Dresden has been detained, German media reported, citing police.
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The perpetrator than fled towards the Altmarkt-Galerie mall in city center, barricading in a drugstore and taking hostages.
According to the German magazine Focus, the hostage situation is over and the wounded suspect taken into custody.