The family drama that blocked Hamburg airport for over 18 hours is over: the armed man who in recent hours had broken into the airport runway with his car holding the four-year-old girl hostage has been arrested: the writes the Dpa agency citing the police.

The little girl is unharmed .

Traffic at the airport was blocked after the man broke into the airport to "kidnap" his little girl, as part of a family dispute.

According to a reconstruction of the facts, on Saturday evening, around 8pm, the armed man drove his car through the airport gate and onto the runway, shooting twice in the air and throwing two Molotov cocktails.

Then he barricaded himself in the car with the little girl at the foot of a Turkish Airlines plane.

Yesterday evening alone, 17 flights arriving in Hamburg, with 3,200 people on board, had to be diverted.

(Unioneonline/lf)

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