German police arrest Turkish man, who kidnapped his four-year-old daughter and held her hostage at Hamburg airport in custody row

German police said they have arrested a father who rammed his car through a security gate and threw molotov cocktails on a runway at Hamburg Airport, while holding his four-year-old daughter hostage in his car.

The situation had been ongoing for almost 18 hours, with German officials shutting the busy airport as negotiations with the 35-year-old continued throughout the night. 

Hamburg Police added the child appears not be injured and the arrest was made without resistance. 

Authorities believed the terrifying ordeal was sparked over a ‘custody dispute’, with the desperate wife of the gunman reported a possible child abduction, with the young girl said to be taken by force from her mother. 

Last night, the armed man, reported by the German newspaper Bild to be a Turkish national, ploughed his Audi through an airport barrier at around 8pm local time (7pm GMT).

He fired a weapon twice and then threw two burning bottles out of the vehicle. The driver then barricaded himself to the foot of a Turkish Airlines plane.

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