Riot police entered the area and shot the man ... and the police officers then had to make use of their firearms," Hamburg police spokesperson Sandra Levgruen said. "We assume that this is an ...

Watch: Alarm in Hamburg as man with axe shot by police. A major operation has taken place in central Hamburg after a man with an axe threatened police officers, officials in the German city say.

German police shot a man armed with a small axe and a firebomb near Hamburg's Reeperbahn, the heavily touristed street in the heart of the northern port city's nightlife district.

There is a heated debate now about the police tactics, as some 6,000 Hamburg residents clean up after the riots. Some in Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat (CDU) party say Hamburg Mayor ...