Police said on Thursday that at least one person had sustained critical wounds amid a hostage situation at a bank branch.

Police do not currently have access to the building, a spokeswoman told the dpa news agency, making similar comments to other agencies. Police could see the wounded person from outside the branch.

A male suspect is believed to be armed with a knife inside.

The spokeswoman said that police were working on the basis that other members of the public or staff were in the building.

Special units and a police helicopter had been alerted and were en route to the scene.

Regensburg is a city of around 150,000 people located roughly between Nuremberg and Munich in eastern Bavaria, not far from the border to the Czech Republic.

*This is a developing story, more to follow... *

Edited by: Sean Sinico

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