Police rule out terrorist attack in Hamburg metro station blast

BERLIN, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- The police in northern German city of Hamburg said the explosion in the city's metro on Sunday afternoon, in which no one was injured, was not a terrorist attack.

At the Hamburg S-Bahn station Veddel, there was a small detonation of a suspected pyrotechnic object in a bag on the platform, the Hamburg police tweeted, saying it damaged one of several windows and nobody got hurt.

The local Focus Online reported that a police spokesman said there is no evidence of a terrorist background -- the small detonation was allegedly triggered by firecrackers.

The police have "evidence of a suspected person", and explosion experts are now investigating the scene, according to the report. Enditem