Photo: DPAUPDATE: Security sources have told German media that a "very concrete" terror attack threat that shut down an Essen shopping centre on Saturday seems to be linked to an Isis fighter from Germany. Police sealed off a major shopping centre in the central city of Essen on Saturday, citing the threat of a terror attack. Security sources told DPA, Bild and broadcaster WDR that the call for an attack came from an Isis fighter in Syria, who was from Oberhausen, near Essen. The German domestic security agency BfV believes that Isis was "almost definitely" behind the threat, local media reported. The police have concrete information regarding a possible attack," local police said in a statement published on social media.

Source: The Local March 11, 2017 11:16 UTC