Pop concert evacuation after terror tip-off

GERMAN police evacuated an open-air weekend “Rock am Ring” concert near the Nuerburgring race track last night due to “concrete leads” of a possible terror threat.

“Due to a terror danger situation, we told the organiser to temporarily stop the concert as a precaution,” police in nearby Koblenz said in a statement.

All those attending were asked to leave and head to nearby camping grounds “in a controlled and orderly fashion”.

Thousands of festival-goers sang You’ll Never Walk Alone as they left the arena.

“The organiser of Rock am Ring, working closely with the security authorities, have ended ahead of schedule the festival today,” the police said. “The background to this was a concrete warning that made it impossible to rule out a terror threat.”

More than 80,000 music fans had travelled to the Nuernburgring for the festival, where German band Rammstein were last night meant to be the headline act, but they had not yet started playing.

The Manchester Arena suicide bombing on May 26 led to tighter security at the German venue, with personnel increased substantially to 1,200, the police said.

“We take all tips and suspicious incidents extremely seriously and investigate closely,” they added.