A suicide bomber blew himself up after he was refused entry into a music festival in the south German town of Ansbach.
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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.
Some 2,500 people were then evacuated from the nearby Ansbach Open music event, which was on the last of a three-day festival.
The suspected attacker had entered Germany two years ago and had his asylum claim rejected a year ago, BBC quoted Herrmann as saying. Although his application for asylum had been denied, he was not in danger of being deported immediately given the civil war raging in Syria.
In that attack, in Wuerzburg, an axe-wielding Afghan asylum seeker teenager was shot dead after injuring five people.
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.
Elsewhere in southern Germany on Sunday, a 21-year-old Syrian refugee was arrested after killing a pregnant woman with a machete though police said the homicide did not appear to be linked to any militant groups or designated terrorist entities.
The man was carrying a backpack filled with explosives and metal parts that would have been sufficient to kill more people, Herrmann said. Police said that he had planned the attack for a year.
Regional police spokeswoman Elke Schoenwald says the 27-year-old Syrian man had also twice before attempted suicide.
Officially this attack has not been confirmed as terrorism.
Police said three of the injured were in a serious condition.
At least one person has died and 12 injured after an explosion at a bar in Ansbach, Germany, authorities said.
Witness Thomas Debinski said there was “panic” after the explosion, although some people thought it was caused by a gas explosion. Few others said a rucksack had exploded.
Bavarian public broadcaster Bayerische Rundfunk reported that 200 police officers and 350 rescue personnel were brought in.
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In this image taken from video fire trucks and ambulances stand in the city center of Ansbach near Nuremberg, southern Germany, Monday morning, July 25, 2016, after a man was killed when an explosive device he was believed…
