Overview

• A 65-year-old woman barricaded herself inside a room at a hospital in Aachen, Germany, with pyrotechnics, leading to an evacuation.
• Police believed the woman had suicidal intentions and dispatched special forces after detecting smoke.
• The stand-off ended late Monday when police overpowered the woman, who was seriously wounded and taken out on a stretcher.
• No other individuals at the hospital were injured during the incident.
• The woman had a blank-firing gun and had threatened employees of a physiotherapy practice inside the hospital.