Just 90 minutes before the New Year, police evacuated Munich’s main rail station and one other terminus in the west of the city.

Bavaria state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said officials had received warnings from foreign intelligence services about suicide bombings by Islamic State extremists that were set to take place at midnight as hundreds of thousands of revelers were out and about in the country’s third-largest city celebrating the start of 2016.

Police have received “concrete information that strongly indicates that there are possible plans for terror attacks in Munich, specifically against the main train station and the railway station in (the western district of) Pasing”.

“At the moment, we still have around 1,000 security additional officers on duty”, Hubertus Andrae, the Munich police chief, said at a press conference.

In some negative news, it was reported that police in Munich warned of a serious imminent threat by the Islamic State Group suicide bombers.

Mr Herrmann said the closure had been “the right decision, because I think we can not run any risks when we have such specific threats”.

More than 500 police and special unit officers from all over the southern Bavaria region were called to Munich Thursday night to help evacuate and secure the stations.

The station was cordoned off and heavily armed police blocked the entrances.

It is important to state that cities across Europe have been on edge since the terror attacks in Paris in November which killed 132 people.

With fears of a fresh attack high, both France and Belgium scrapped the traditional New Year fireworks displays in their respective capitals, with Brussels saying it had information about an alleged militant plot to attack “emblematic sites” over the holiday.

“The situation in Europe and Germany continues to be serious in the new year”, de Maiziere said in a written statement.

Meanwhile, Munich police also thanked the public for “staying calm” in a series of tweets in both English and German.

Germany has not experienced the sort of attacks that were carried out in Madrid in 2004, London in 2005 and Paris previous year, but the authorities in Berlin warn that the country remained a possible target, most notably because of its military presence in Afghanistan. Additionally, following November’s deadly attacks in Paris, claimed by ISIS, anxieties over a rapidly burgeoning refugee crisis have also gripped Europe, leading to a rise in popularity of several right-wing, anti-immigration political parties.

Bavarian public radio station “Bayerischer Rundfunk” said that the police was looking into seven Iraqi individuals, whose names were reportedly known to them.