Following the attack, the city centre was sealed off. An investigation is underway to determine the kind of explosives that the attacker used.
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An employee at the Turkish restaurant told the Stuttgarter Zeitung that the Syrian asylum seeker had arrived in Germany by himself about 18 months ago. His asylum was turned down a year ago but he was allowed to stay temporarily due to the war.
Germany and Bavaria are on alert after nine were killed Friday in a deadly rampage at a shopping mall in Munich.
In another incident, an axe-wielding teenager had injured few people after he attacked a train in Wuerzburg.
At least one person is dead and 12 others injured after an explosion outside a music festival in Germany.
“If there is an Islamist link or not is purely speculation at this point”, said Michael Schrotberger, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Ansbach said.
“At the beginning I heard rumors that it was a gas explosion, but then suddenly people ran, someone said a backpack exploded”. The man was already known to the police, he said, because he had twice been treated in a hospital after trying to take his life.
Ansbach is home to a U.S. Army base and the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade.
The incident last Monday was the first in a series of attacks that have shaken Germany over the past week.
The suspected bomber – the only confirmed casualty of the blast – reportedly attempted to gain access to the entrance of the festival prior to detonation at around 10pm on Sunday night, local time. Police said there were no indications pointing to terrorism.
The Bavarian Interior Ministry told dpa that it appeared to possibly be a bombing attack, saying that there was evidence that there was a “deliberate explosion”.
Earlier in the day, police say a Syrian refugee killed a woman and injured two other people with a machete.
“After what just happened in Munich it’s very disturbing to think what can happen so close to you in such a small town”.
There was no immediate word on possible motives for the explosion, but police said neither Sunday’s machete attack nor Friday’s shooting in Munich bore any sign of connections with Daesh or other militant groups.
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Four days before, a Tunisian delivery man drove a large truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in the French Riviera city of Nice, killing 84 people. IS said it was also responsible for the attack by 31-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel.
