The full horror of a planned terrorist attack on a football stadium in Hanover have been revealed in secret security documents.
The city's HDI Arena was dramatically evacuated just two hours before an international football match between Germany and Holland.
German newspaper Bild claims to have obtained secret documents passed between security services which triggered the terror alert.
The Federal Ministry of the Interior was handed a memo warning multiple explosions were planned inside the stadium after kick-off.
Bild reports the explosives were to be smuggled inside the stadium using an ambulance.
A group of several extremists also planned to film the attack as the horror unfolded.
Further blasts were also planned in the heart of the city and at Hanover Railway Station.
An ambulance was seized as police swooped on the stadium but no explosives were found in the area.
The intelligence was said to have been received from a foreign intelligence service.
Sources suggest the attack had been planned by a North African terror cell.
The match was cancelled just four days after the Paris terror attacks left 129 dead on Friday.
The German national team was taken to a secure area of the HDI Arena in Hanover and had not entered the pitch.
“There were plans for some kind of explosion,” Hanover’s chief of police, Volker Kluwe, told the BBC.
He added: "We assume that this threat is serious, and we cannot guess whatt the attackers will do instead.
“You don’t know what a perpetrator is possibly planning. Don’t stay in groups. Find safety.”
Music fans were evacuated from the TUI-Arena where German pop group The Söhne Mannheims were due to play the same evening.
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