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Germany-Netherlands game canceled for bomb threat

Xinhua, November 18, 2015 Adjust font size:

A friendly soccer game between Germany and the Netherlands was canceled 90 minutes before the planned kickoff on Tuesday because of a "concrete warning" of a bomb attack.

"We had concrete evidence that someone wanted to set off an explosive device in the stadium," Hannover police chief Volker Kluwe told German TV.

The game would have been played four days after suicide bombers detonated themselves outside the Stade de France where Germany was playing a friendly game with France. Multiple attacks in Paris that night left 129 dead. Endi