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A soccer stadium and an arena in Germany were evacuated over terror threats Tuesday, and a train station was partially closed as cops investigated a suspicious object.

Hannover Police Chief Volker Kluwe told German TV that cops “had concrete evidence that someone wanted to set off an explosive device in the stadium.”

Kluwe said the evacuation was ordered about an hour after an earlier false alarm that a bomb had been planted inside.

“After the first object turned out to be harmless, we got a tip that had to be taken seriously that an attack was being planned,” he said.

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German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told a news conference that no explosives were found in the stadium, which was set to host an exhibition match between Germany and the Netherlands.

“The match was called off on my recommendation,” de Maiziere said.

“There is a high level of threat for Germany and Europe.”

Boris Pistorius, the interior minister for Lower Saxony, also denied a report that an ambulance full of explosives had been found outside.

Cops also cleared out Hannover’s TUI Arena ahead of a concert by the band Sohne Mannheims and closed part of the city’s train station due to the discovery of an unspecified, suspicious item.

The series of scares followed last week’s wave of terror attacks in Paris that killed 129 people.

Targets of the deadly spree by suspected ISIS operatives included the Stade de France soccer stadium and a concert by the American band Eagles of Death Metal at the Bataclan theater.

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