Important tips

German authorities say they have received warnings of possible attacks on Berlin and Dresden train stations, and the weekly anti-Islamization PEGIDA rally. The information came from foreign intelligence agencies.

"German security authorities are doing everything they can to protect the public as effectively as possible," Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said in response to the news published on the website of weekly news publication "Der Spiegel" on Friday. He added that not all protective measures were visible to the public.

The warnings concerned possible attacks on the two main train stations in the capital Berlin and in Dresden, where the weekly PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West) demonstration was also cited as a possible target. "We've been tipped off about possible attacks on these rail stations," according to a security source quoted by Der Spiegel.

 Foreign intelligence warnings of militant attacks on Berlin, Dresden train stations