A refugee center in Hamburg was stormed by police on Tuesday after a man armed with a knife barricaded himself inside a room with a woman, believed to be his partner. The man was injured before being arrested, according to local reports.

The woman, who is pregnant, was released unharmed before members of Germany’s Special Deployment Commando (MEK) were deployed into the building, according to Bild.

Police have not yet disclosed a suspected motive for the incident.

The unidentified man was detained by police and reportedly taken in an ambulance to hospital for injuries sustained during the incident.

Members of the MEK are seen entering the building in one video uploaded to social media. While other photographs of the scene, posted online, show armed guards with dogs surrounding the center.

Police are cited in a report in Welt saying that the man was previously banned from entering the building but had returned repeatedly.</s>A knifeman barricaded himself in a refugee centre in the German city of Hamburg with a pregnant woman, it has been reported.

Police were called amid reports a man with a weapon had stormed into the facility this morning and is holed up in a room.

A gunman has barricaded himself in refugee centre in the German city of Hamburg, it has been reported (file picture)</s>The armed and dangerous migrant took hostages and barrackaded himself into the centre in Hammersbrook, Hamburg.

A spokesperson for the migrant centre said he had trapped at least one woman inside with him and that was believed to be his pregnant partner.

Armed officers stormed the building with police dogs and what appeared to be heavy duty weapons.

German police said they believed the incident was taking place due to "a dispute over accommodation" and has now been resolved.</s>BAYTOWN, Texas - A man has been charged in the murder of a woman who was approximately eight months pregnant.</s>THIS is the tense standoff between police and a knife-wielding man whose auto ploughed into three people in Germany. The suspect was seriously injured and taken to the hospital.

Start the conversation, or Read more at The Oak Ridge Observer.</s>Policemen stand around a car in front of a business building in Heidelberg, western Germany, where a man ploughed into pedestrians on February 25, 2017.

BERLIN: A man apparently drove a car into pedestrians in a central square in the German city of Heidelberg on Saturday, injuring three people, then fled and was shot after being tracked down by officers, police said.

One of the three people hit outside a bakery on Saturday afternoon was seriously injured, police spokeswoman Anne Baas said.

The man, who is believed to have been carrying a knife, then got out of his rental car, another police spokesman, Norbert Schaetzle, told n-tv television.

He was intercepted by a police patrol and shot by an officer following a short standoff. He has been taken to a hospital.

There was no immediate word on the man's possible motives, where he came from or his condition in the hospital.

Schaetzle said he couldn't confirm local media reports that the man was mentally disturbed, but said a terrorist background is not suspected and the man appears to have acted alone.
German police storm a refugee center in Hamburg after a knife-wielding man barricades himself in a room with a pregnant woman believed to be his partner. The man was injured before he was arrested.