A 30-year-old woman, who had been raped at gunpoint, allegedly tried to hang herself at her home in Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh after learning that the video of the incident had gone viral on social media platforms.

German police escorted students out of a school in the northern city of Hamburg on Wednesday, acting on information that two youths had entered a classroom and brandished something that resembled a gun, they said.

Police took four children, aged 12 to 14, into temporary custody. They later concluded that two of them were behind the incident, which had involved a toy gun.

The other children were taken to a nearby military barracks where they waited for their parents to pick them up. Investigations are ongoing, police said.

Pupils and teachers had been asked to lock themselves in their classrooms in the late morning, TV channel ARD said, but police did not immediately confirm this.

Hamburg was recently the scene of an hostage standoff at the airport that had forced authorities to close the busy hub for hours.

The Congress on Wednesday appointed its leader from Kerala Ramesh Chennithala as senior observer for the Telangana assembly election.

It also appointed more observers for some Lok Sabha seats in the southern state for the November 30 assembly polls.

“The Congress president has approved the proposal for the appointment of Ramesh Chennithala as AICC Special observer for the ensuing assembly elections in Telangana with immediate effect,” the party announced.

The party has also appointed Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, Ranjeet Ranjan, R C Khuntia, Udit Raj, Pradeep Tamta and Himmat Singh Patel as coordinators for the Congress Guarantee Yatra in Rajasthan for the ensuing assembly elections in the state.