Police in Munich, Germany, evacuated two train stations on Thursday night after indications of a planned attack. Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said police received intelligence the group was planning a massacre with five to seven suicide bombers as revelers welcomed in the New Year.

Referring to the Munich scare, Mr Herrmann said the authorities “have nothing concrete about a place or time”.

Local media reports that the information had come from French authorities. The suspended train services returned to normal in the early hours of Friday, but the heavy police presence remained across the city.

German authorities Friday launched a manhunt for several suspects who officials believe planned suicide bombings at rail stations, as full rail transportation service in Munich resumed after being temporarily shut down as a safety precaution on New Year’s Eve. He said that the police was still examining those hints of alleged suspects, and it was still not known whether there were so-called five to seven suspects from Syria and Iraq. “Overall, I would say that the situation for Munich is as it was before this threat of attack”, the southern city’s police chief Hubertus Andrae told journalists.

Munich police tightened security across the southern state of Bavaria, which was the entry point from Austria for virtually all of the just over one million asylum seekers who arrived in Germany previous year.

Thomas de Maiziere, interior minister in the federal government of Chancellor Angela Merkel, said: “The situation in Europe and also in Germany remains serious in the New Year”.

A “serious, imminent threat” of a terror attack by Islamic State led to the closure of two major train stations in Munich, German officials have confirmed. “We still have significant police deployment at Munich central station and Pasing station, but this has been significantly reduced compared to last night”, he said.

It is imperative to state that days after the Paris attack, a stadium in Hannover was evacuated after a terror threat against a friendly match between Germany and the Netherlands.

However, not even terrorist threats could keep Europeans from ringing in the new year – though every capital city was saturated with security, especially Paris – where terrorists struck twice this past year.