Local authorities say one person is dead and a dozen injured in an explosion today near Nuremberg, Germany, that appears to be intentional.
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A music festival taking place nearby was evacuated as a precaution. There has been no claim of responsibility for the blast.
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He said no arrests had been made in connection with the explosion but Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann was en route to the site.
The 27-year-old, who had spent a stint in a psychiatric facility, had meant to target a music festival in the city of Ansbach but was turned away because he did not have a ticket.
It was the fourth violent incident in Germany in a week and came as the country was still on edge after the killing of nine people by an 18-year-old Iranian-German gunman in Munich on Friday.
Twelve people were injured in Sunday’s blast, the authorities said later.
Ansbach deputy police chief Roman Fertinger said there were “indications” that pieces of metal had been added to the explosive device.
“When a man and woman have an argument, we assume that we are dealing with a crime of passion”, a local police spokeswoman told German news agency DPA. “After what just happened in Munich it’s very disturbing to think what can happen so close to you in such a small town”.
The concert was shut down and around 200 police officers and 350 rescue personnel flooded the scene, with investigators later confirming the blast had been caused by a bomb. The suspect was living in an asylum shelter in Ansbach, but his asylum application had been rejected, according to Herrmann.
Back in January, Bavaria’s justice minister launched a state program in Ansbach meant to teach refugees the basics of law in their new host country.
Last Monday, a 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker launched an axe and knife attack on passengers on a train in Wuerzburg.
Earlier on Sunday, a Syrian asylum seeker killed a woman with a machete and wounded two others outside a bus station in the south-western German city of Reutlingen before being arrested.
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“Unfortunately, this is a bad new attack which will surely increase people’s anxiety”, regional interior minister Joachim Herrmann said, adding that investigators “have not ruled out” he had an Islamist motive. Police said that he had planned the attack for a year.
