Ansbach Mayor Carda Seidel told journalists that the explosion was caused by an explosive device, Nordbayern.de said (in German).
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Around 9:45, the Associated Press said, “Bavaria’s top security official says Ansbach attacker blew himself up after being turned away from music festival”.
The 27-year-old man, whose asylum application had been rejected a year ago, had meant to disrupt a nearby pop music festival where 2,500 people had gathered, Joachim Herrmann said, according to DPA.
Herrmann said the attacker, who came to Germany two years ago but had his asylum claim rejected after a year, had tried to kill himself twice in the past and had spent time in a psychiatric clinic.
A suicide bomber has detonated a bomb at the entrance to the Ansbach Open music festival in the German town of Ansbach, near Nuremberg.
Michael Siefener, a spokesman for the regional interior ministry, said the explosion “was set off deliberately”, adding that authorities were trying to establish the exact cause.
“According to what is now known, this was a lone attacker”, a police spokesperson said via The Wall Steet Journal.
Authorities investigating the axe rampage in Wuerzburg said the teen responsible was thought to be a “lone wolf” who was “inspired” by Islamic State without being a member of the network. Earlier today, a 21-year-old Syrian refugee was arrested for killing a pregnant woman and wounding two others with a machete near Stuttgart. Police say the incident did not appear terrorism related but that the suspect had an unspecified history of injuring others.
They said that “a man, according to our current knowledge the perpetrator, died” in the blast.
The blast is the fourth violent incident in Germany in as many days.
Ansbach resident Thomas Debinski said people panicked when they heard the explosion, especially after the events of the past week.
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Police stand guard following an explosion that injured at least 10 people and killed the person suspected of setting off the blast in Ansbach, Germany, July, 24, 2016. The 27-year-old Syrian had also been denied asylum, Bavarian officials said Monday. The teenage axeman, Riaz Khan Ahmadzai, was shot dead by police.
