A GERMAN woman missing for 12 years has been found living in the woods on the outskirts of the Swiss capital with nothing more than an umbrella and tarpaulin for shelter, police said yesterday.

Swiss special forces stormed the Spanish consulate in the capital, Berne, today to end a siege nearly seven hours after three assailants broke into the building.

A siege of the Spanish consulate in the Swiss capital Berne is still going on, police in Switzerland have said.