Photo: Thomas Frey/DPAOne of Germany's biggest music festivals was interrupted on Friday over a "possible terrorist threat," police said. The three-day " Rock am Ring ," held at the famous Nuerburgring sports complex near the western city of Nuerburg, is scheduled to run until Sunday. READ ALSO: German heavy metal fest builds beer pipeline to keep revellers pumpedIt draws tens of thousands of people annually. In a statement, police in the city of Coblenz said they were in possession of "concrete elements, in the light of which a possible terrorist threat cannot be ruled out." Last year's Rock am Ring programme was curtailed by violent storms in which dozens of people were injured by lightning.

Source: The Local June 03, 2017 08:37 UTC