After the bomb threat: Vaccination centers in Bad Wörishofen and Memmingen evacuated

A stranger issued a bomb threat on the hotline of the Unterallgäu vaccination center on Friday evening.

Numerous emergency services then set off.

Update from May 8, 12:16 p.m.:

After the evacuation of two vaccination centers in Swabia, the criminal police started an investigation. The vaccination centers in Bad Wörishofen and Memmingen were vacated on Friday evening because of a threatening call to the joint hotline. The officials are now investigating against unknowns, as a police spokesman said on Saturday.

Of course, a visit to the vaccination center is still safe, as a police spokesman emphasized. The officers would patrol more and show presence, said the police to the

Bavarian radio (BR24)

. At the vaccination hotline, a male voice uttered the threat on Friday evening. The police did not comment on the exact wording for tactical reasons.

The rooms were searched with sniffer dogs on Friday, but no suspicious object was found.

About 20 people were affected by the evacuation of the Memmingen vaccination center, around 50 people in Bad Wörishofen.

A large part of the vaccination doses could still be administered, in Bad Wörishofen vaccination was carried out in an ambulance.

After the bomb threat: Vaccination centers in Bad Wörishofen and Memmingen evacuated

First report from May 7th:

Bad Wörishofen / Memmingen - On Friday evening the police in Bad Wörishofen and Memmingen * were called to a large-scale operation at the respective vaccination centers.

An anonymous caller had issued a bomb threat against the two centers.

Bomb threat in Unterallgäu: Police evacuate staff and those willing to be vaccinated

At around 7 p.m., the threat was received via the hotline of the Unterallgäu vaccination center, writes the

Augsburger Allgemeine

. The police then set out with a large contingent and cordoned off the surrounding area. "The buildings in Bad Wörishofen and Memmingen have been evacuated, according to our information there is currently no danger," said police spokesman Holger Stabik at around 8:40 pm the

Augsburger Allgemeine

. In Bad Wörishofen 50 people were evacuated, in Memmingen there were

around 35

according to the

Allgäuer Zeitung

.

The buildings were then searched with explosive dogs.

However, the search was unsuccessful.

Nevertheless, both centers are still monitored by the police overnight.

In addition to the normal patrol officers, there were also forces from the criminal police, the emergency train operational supplementary services and the motorway police on site.

The exact background to the bomb threat has yet to be determined, said Stabik.

Initially, no other vaccination centers in Swabia were affected.

Bomb threat in Unterallgäu: a doctor brought everyone in Bad Wörishofen to safety

"At first it was not clear which location was meant, Bad Wörishofen or Memmingen, the hotline is responsible for both," said Dr.

Max Kaplan, the medical coordinator in the Lower Allgäu of the

Augsburger Allgemeine

.

He himself works at the Bad Wörishofen vaccination center.

"I heard a kind of computer voice on the phone," Kaplan said.

All vaccinations * were immediately interrupted and people were taken outside.

So that no vaccine had to be thrown away, the Maltese provided an ambulance.

There the cans were inoculated.

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