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Police secure the area around Limbecker Platz (Picture: Reuters/Thilo Schmuelgen)

A shopping centre in Germany has been ordered to stay closed today due to ‘concrete indications about a possible attack’.

Terror police told the popular mall, Limbecker Platz, in Essen – a 25 minute drive from Dusseldorf – to not open.

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The shopping centre car park has also been put on lock down.

Officials said that they have indications of a planned attack.


In a statement, police said: ‘The current state of our investigations points to the threat being exclusively at the shopping centre.’

The shopping mall in Essen is not allowed to open (Picture: Reuters/Thilo Schmuelgen)

It was shut due to an attack threat (Picture: Reuters/Thilo Schmuelgen)

Police are guarding the area (Picture: Reuters/Thilo Schmuelgen)

A police dog is led inside (Picture: Reuters/Thilo Schmuelgen)

Police gave no further details about the nature of the threat.

Germany is on high alert following major radical Islamist attacks in France and Belgium.

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A failed asylum seeker from Tunisia drove a truck into a Christmas market in December, killing 12 people.



And on Thursday night nine people were injured in Dusseldorf following an axe attack.

Several people were seriously injured during the incident at the city’s main train station.