Hannover stadium evacuated live: Germany football match cancelled amid ‘concrete security threat’ days after Paris attacks – latest updates

Three areas in Hannover were evacuated but police have found no explosives

Special police forces cordon off the stadium in Hannover after the soccer friendly match between Germany and the Netherlands was cancelled amid security fears (Christian Charisius/dpa via AP)

A "concrete security threat" caused police to evacuate Hannover stadium in Germany less than two hours before an international friendly between Germany and the Netherlands was due to start.

A further two sites - a music venue and part of a train station - were evacuated but police found no explosives and made no arrests. Here are the latest updates:

• Hannover stadium evacuated after 'concrete security threat'
• German police found no explosives and made no arrests
• A second fugitive is being sought in connection with the Paris attacks
• Three terror suspects have been arrested in Germany
• Bombers' hotel rooms and flat have been searched by police
• Two Belgians arrested for driving suspect out of Paris
• Salah Abdeslam is still at large and visited Austria in September
• French jets launch second night of air strikes on Isis targets
• George Osborne warns Isis is plotting deadly cyber attacks
• Doctors and nurses describe night of the attacks
• Man carrying same 'fake' Syrian passport as bomber in Serbia
• Isolation is fuelling young Muslims' anger in Paris
• A man has written a defiant tribute to his murdered wife
• Video of 'London Muslims celebrating attacks' is fake

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Hannover City Police president Volker Kluwe told reporters there had been "serious indications that a bomb attack was planned by Islamic assailants," leading to the evacuation of the stadium with fans being told to "go straight home".

Local media reports suggested an ambulance and a recovery vehicle were being investigated for explosives by police at the scene, while unverified pictures emerged of a man apparently being held at gunpoint outside of the stadium.

However it has since been confirmed no explosives were found inside the ambulance or another vehicle at the scene.

Another stadium in Hannover - a music venue where band Soehne Mannheims had been due to play - was evacuated, before part of the city's central train station was closed following the reported discovery of an object.

German Chancellor Angela merkel and several other cabinet members had been due to attend the game in a show of solidarity four days after the Paris attacks.

One of two caretaker presidents in charge of the German football federation, Reinhard Rauball, said the German team was about three miles away from the statium when he told them to turn around.

"It's a sad day for German football," he said.

German officials have since confirmed that no explosives were found in Hannover and that no arrests have been made.

Additional reporting by agencies