Holzminden.

A twenty-four-year-old from Holzminden is said to have held a young person from Kassel for several days against her will in the city area.

After a hint from the mother, the girl's friend came into focus, as the police announced on Thursday.

After the manhunt across the state borders of Hesse to Lower Saxony, the police found the injured girl in an apartment on Thursday night.

She needed medical treatment.

Initial investigations revealed that the victim was detained in the apartment and also injured. The man is known to the police and was arrested.

He was under the influence of drugs.

In the man's apartment there were narcotics and items that could have come from other crimes.

Flörsheim.

A 13-year-old boy in Flörsheim (Main-Taunus-Kreis) triggered a police operation lasting several hours with a toy gun. As a police spokesman said on Thursday, witnesses reported an alleged youth with a "weapon-like object" in hand on Wednesday evening. Emergency forces cordoned off the area around the asylum seeker accommodation over a large area and evacuated pubs nearby. The police managed to determine the identity of the thirteen-year-old and to contact him by phone via the father, said the police spokesman. The youth was arrested. According to the information, the weapon turned out to be a toy weapon. According to the police spokesman, it is now being checked whether the wearing of the so-called pretend weapon has represented an administrative offense.

Ruesselsheim.

Four people were injured in a collision between several cars on the A67 near Rüsselsheim (Groß-Gerau district). A 25-year-old man hit a car on Wednesday evening at the end of a traffic jam near a construction site and pushed several vehicles into one another, the police said. As a result of the car crash, three drivers were slightly injured and one passenger was seriously injured. All four people were taken to a hospital. The 25-year-old man and another driver were uninjured. The A67 was temporarily blocked at the transition to Autobahn 60 in the direction of Mainz.

Gross-Gerau.

In Groß-Gerau, an 80-year-old man and his 52-year-old son wanted to chlorinate their pool and triggered a chemical reaction. Instead of just mixing chlorine, the two accidentally dumped sulfuric acid with chlorine and water in a 200-liter barrel in their garage, the police said on Thursday. This resulted in a chemical reaction that produced gas. The two men inhaled the gas but were unharmed. According to the police, the contents of the barrel were then further diluted by the fire brigade and, after consulting the sewage treatment plant, pumped it into the sewer system.

Einhausen.

A cyclist was hit by a car in Einhausen (Bergstrasse district) and seriously injured. The accident occurred on Wednesday evening at an intersection, the police said. The cyclist was taken to a hospital in a rescue helicopter.

Fulda.

A drunk truck driver crashed his vehicle against a guardrail near Fulda, causing property damage of 30,000 euros. The 61-year-old man was on the road 27 from Künzell in the direction of Bronnzeller Kreisel (district of Fulda) on Wednesday afternoon when he lost control of his vehicle shortly before the Kaiserwiese exit, as the police announced on Thursday. The vehicle then collided with the right guardrail and a traffic sign. The driver was slightly injured in the impact. The main road was closed for several hours due to salvage work.