SYRIAN REFUGEE KILLED BY OWN BOMB AT GERMAN BAR
BERLIN
- A Syrian refugee has been killed setting off a bomb at a bar in southern
Germany which also wounded a dozen other people late Sunday, authorities say,
the third attack to hit Bavaria in a week.
The
27-year-old man, whose asylum application was rejected a year ago, had been
targeting a nearby pop music festival, regional interior minister Joachim
Herrmann said, according to DPA.
Some
2,500 people have been evacuated from the concert after the explosion went
off in front of a bar in the centre of Ansbach at around 10:00pm (2000 GMT).
Police
have blocked off the city centre and emergency services were at the scene.
Bomb experts were also on their way to determine the cause of the blast.
"An
explosion went off in the city centre and a man, who the latest enquiries
show caused it, was killed in the event," police said in a statement.
A
dozen people were wounded in the explosion, three of them seriously, added a
spokeswoman, without giving any more details.
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.
The
blast is the third incident to hit the southern German state of Bavaria in a
week, after nine were killed in a shooting rampage in Munich and several were
wounded in an axe attack on a train.
Europe
has been on edge for months after a string of deadly attacks claimed by the
Islamic State jihadist group, including bombings in Brussels and carnage at
Bastille Day celebrations in the southern French city of Nice.
Obsessed
with mass murder
Police released more details of
Munich attacker David Ali Sonboly on Sunday, saying the 18-year-old was
depressed and had spent two months in a psychiatric unit last year.
The
Afghan teen was obsessed with mass killings and spent a year preparing for
the gun attack that killed nine people, most of them foreigners.
At
least 35 people were also wounded during Sonboly’s shooting spree, which
began at a McDonald’s branch and ended with him turning his 9mm Glock pistol
on himself.
Investigators have ruled out any
link with the jihadists, though he appears to have planned the assault with
chilling precision.
Police
have also arrested a 16-year-old friend in connection with the attack.
Hundreds
of people, many of them in tears, gathered outside the Munich shopping centre
where the attack took place to pay tribute to the victims on Sunday. Already
steeped in grief and shock, Germans were further rattled by news that a
Syrian refugee had killed 45-year-old Polish woman with a machete in the city
of Reutlingen.
Police
said that incident on Sunday, in which three others were injured, did not
bear the hallmarks of a "terrorist attack".
"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. Three people were also injured in
the attack, which ended when the 21-year-old assailant was hit by a BMW.
NTV
showed amateur video footage of the suspect running away from the scene
before cutting to him lying on the ground, his face bloodied and his hands
cuffed by police. - AFP
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Thứ Hai, 25 tháng 7, 2016
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