 Police evacuated the shopping mall and surrounding areas in the eastern German city of Dresden on Saturday due to a suspected hostage-taking, according to a police statement. The Dresden Police Department is currently carrying out an operation in downtown Dresden. The background is a suspicion of a hostage situation, the police said in a statement on its website. By 12.30 local time, the police confirmed that the hostage situation was over. Two people are externally unharmed and in our care, the police wrote on Twitter. One daily build reported that an unarmed man had killed a woman since stormed a local radio station and fired shots before fleeing into the shopping mall where he took several hostages. Nobody picked up the phone at the Radio Dresden broadcaster or at the Altmark Gallery shopping mall when called by Reuters. Radio Dresden said on its website earlier that an unarmed man had entered the Amonhof office building where the radio station is located at around 8.30 local time and that shots had been fired. The police did not confirm the details reported by Radio Dresden and build, but urged citizens to avoid the city center. It added that the famous Streasel Mark Christmas Market would remain closed for the time being.