text: Festival goers leave the venue of the Rock am Ring music festival on June 2, 2017 in Nuerburg following an evcuation alert (AFP Photo/Thomas Frey) 
   
   Berlin (AFP) - Germany's biggest rock festival will resume after being disrupted by fears of a possible "terrorist threat" which have proved to be unfounded, the organisers said Saturday. 
   
   Police told AFP searches at the three-day "Rock am Ring," held near the southwestern city of Koblenz were over. Live music will resume at 1:30 pm (1130 GMT). 
   
   Some 90,000 people are expected to attend the event which ends on Sunday. 
   
   "After a series of intensive searches across the site the fears of an imminent danger were not confirmed," the organisers said. 
   
   "The police gave the go-ahead" for the festival to restart, they said. 
   
   The festival was evacuated on Friday evening after Koblenz police said they were in possession of "concrete elements, in the light of which a possible terrorist threat cannot be ruled out". 
   
   Police said three people suspected of being members of a Salafist group in the neighbouring state of Hesse were detained but released on Saturday. 
   
   "One person who is not of German origin and is known to the police as having links to the Islamist terror network had access to" backstage areas, police spokesman Wolfgang Fromm said. 
   
   The three had been hired to set up security barriers at the venue. 
   
   Security for the festival had already been stepped up, with an additional 1,200 staff, in response to the May 22 Manchester bombing which occurred after a concert by US singer Ariana Grande. 
   
   The region's interior minister Roger Lewentz defended the decision to evacuate the festival, saying: "We cannot take risks." 
   
   Last year's Rock am Ring programme was curtailed by violent storms in which dozens of people were injured by lightning. 
   
   The country remains on high alert after a jihadist attack on a Christmas market in Berlin on December 19. 
   
   Anis Amri, a 24-year-old Tunisian, hijacked a truck, killed its Polish driver and ploughed the vehicle through the market, claiming 11 more lives and wounding dozens. ||||| A rock festival in Germany has been closed down for the day after police received information on a suspected terror threat. Thousands of people were evacuated from the Rock am Ring, at the Nürburgring in the north-west of the country on Friday. 
   
   Police said they were investigating after getting “concrete indications” that meant they could not “exclude a possible terrorist threat”. Festival organisers said they had been asked by police to shut down the festival “due to a terrorist threat”. 
   
   The incident comes less than a fortnight after a terrorist killed 22 people at a concert in Manchester. 
   
   It was not immediately clear how many fans were in attendance, but about 90,000 were expected by the end of the weekend at the annual three-day event. 
   
   The German band Rammstein were Friday night’s headliners, but had not started playing. The festival’s organisers said they hoped to be able to go ahead on Saturday. 
   
   “As safety is paramount, and it is necessary to exclude a threat to festival visitors in any case as far as possible, it was decided to suspend the festival for this day,” police said. 
   
   
   
   Police said they had changed their security plans in the light of the Manchester attack and had increased their forces to 1,200 officers. 
   
   “After a threat could not be ruled out, all necessary measures were taken immediately. This led to the event being interrupted today for security reasons.” 
   
   Rock am Ring’s organisers said: “We ask all the festival visitors to leave the site in a calm and controlled manner towards the exits and camping grounds. We have to support the police investigations.”
target: – A "possible terrorist threat" shut down Rock am Ring, one of Germany's biggest music festivals, Friday near Nuerburg, AFP reports. Police say they have "concrete elements, in the light of which a possible terrorist threat cannot be ruled out." But no other details were released. According to the Guardian, thousands of people were asked to leave the festival calmly "in order to help police investigations." It's unclear how many people were in attendance Friday, but about 90,000 were expected over the three-day festival. Organizers hoped the festival would resume Saturday. Rock am Ring had already increased security, adding 1,200 additional staff, after the recent Manchester bombing at an Ariana Grande concert. (Rock am Ring was also suspended last year after dozens were injured by lightning.)