At the same time, head of the hostage rescue operation Klaus Rueschenschmidt commented on the incident revealing that the attacker ignited a Molotov cocktail in a cafe before taking a woman hostage at the train station in the German city of Cologne. Around the time of the incident, a teenage girl was taken from the train station to the hospital with injuries, police spokesman Christoph Schulte said.
At least three people are injured after a man firebombs a fast-food restaurant in the Cologne main station and takes a woman hostage. The woman is later rescued by German counter-terrorism units.