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    Terror motive not ruled out in Cologne hostage taking

    German police are not ruling out the possibility that a man who hurled a firebomb and then took a woman hostage at a major German railway station on Monday acted with a "terrorist" motive, AFP reported.

    Police said they found a passport issued to a 55-year-old Syrian man at the scene, and that the suspect had claimed to be a member of the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group.

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