The airport has warned of flight delays (Picture: Jeremy Moeller/Getty Images)
Flights have been grounded at a German airport after a threat of an attack arrived via email.
Hamburg Airport has been locked down and authorities have searched a plane with 198 passengers from Tehran, Iran.
The German air force said on X it had escorted the plane to the airport after it entered the country’s airspace due to a bomb threat.
The airport fire brigade is also on scene.
A police spokesperson described the measures, which included interviewing passengers on the plane, as ‘normal procedure’ when a threat is classified as being serious.
The aircraft and luggage on board was also searched.
The threat of an attack was made via email against the plane flying from Iran’s capital. It landed in Hamburg at around 12.20pm.
Flights were grounded for about an hour, with no arrivals or departures to and from the airport, but operations resumed at around 1.20pm.
Passengers have been warned that there could still be delays due to the earlier disruption.
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