FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Police&nbsp;arrested&nbsp;a man and rescued a child at the centre of a&nbsp;hostage&nbsp;standoff&nbsp;at&nbsp;Hamburg&nbsp;airport&nbsp;on Sunday, ending a crisis that had forced authorities to close the busy air hub.
A man, who&nbsp;police&nbsp;said was&nbsp;suspected of carrying a gun, and possibly explosives, drove a vehicle through the gates of the&nbsp;airport&nbsp;on Saturday night, officers said.
Police&nbsp;said the 35-year-old man was with his four-year-old daughter and was thought to be involved in a custody dispute.
"The&nbsp;hostage&nbsp;situation is&nbsp;over," the city's&nbsp;police&nbsp;force wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, early on Sunday afternoon.
"The&nbsp;suspect&nbsp;got out of the car with his daughter. The man was&nbsp;arrested&nbsp;by the emergency services without resistance. The child appears to be unharmed," it added.
The&nbsp;airport&nbsp;said it was working to resume operations as quickly as possible. A total of 286 flights with around 34,500 passengers had been scheduled for Sunday, it said earlier.
"I wish the mother, the child and her family a lot of strength to cope with this terrible experience,"&nbsp;Hamburg&nbsp;mayor Peter Tschentscher wrote on X.
The episode raised concerns&nbsp;over&nbsp;security at the&nbsp;airport&nbsp;less than four months after climate activists got onto the runway and blocked planes.
(Reporting by Tom Sims, Joern Poltz, and Tanya Wood;Editing by Daniel Wallis, William Mallard, David Evans and Andrew Heavens)

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