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…
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The Bild newspaper reported the woman worked at the kebab stand near where confrontation took place. Close to the scene there is a music festival.
Bavaria police said security at the event, held at the Reitbahn near the city’s castle, noticed a young man acting suspiciously in the area at around 9.45pm.
Herrmann said the man, carrying a backpack, had apparently been denied entry to the Ansbach Open music festival shortly before the explosion, the website reported.
‘But then people came past and said it was a rucksack that had exploded.
He added that the man’s request for asylum was rejected a year ago, but he was allowed to remain in Germany on account of the situation in Syria.
“It’s awful… that someone who came into our country to seek shelter has now committed such a heinous act and injured a large number of people who are at home here, some seriously”, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told reporters at a hastily convened news conference early on Monday. He was also known to police in Ansbach for previous offenses. He said investigators would work tirelessly to investigate the attack and fully understand the man’s motives.
The train attacker was later shot dead by police.
In January a programme was launched in Ansbach to help refugees assimilate by teaching them the basics of law in their new host country. A spokesman at the base said the base had no information about the explosion.
‘If there is an Islamist link or not is purely speculation at this point, ‘ he said.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in which five people were injured.
It is the third incident in a week in the southern German state of Bavaria.
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Police said the woman was 45 years old and from Poland.
