Syrian man kills himself, injures 12, in ‘deliberate explosion’ in Ansbach

A Syrian man killed himself and injured 12 people after a “deliberate explosion” outside a music festival in the German town of Ansbach, according to News from The Guardian . Authorities said the 27-year-old had been denied asylum a year ago and had a history of making attempts on his own life. It is believed a device he was carrying exploded although it is not clear whether it was a suicide bombing or whether the man intended to plant it and harm others. At a media conference in the early hours of Monday the Bavarian interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, said the man had attempted to gain entrance to the Ansbach open music festival. More than 2,000 people had been in the festival crowd in the small town of 40,000 people southwest of Nuremberg that is also home to a US Army base. Herrmann said the man was carrying a backpack at the time of the blast, at about 10pm on Sunday, but was turned away at the entrance to the festival where the performers were due to have been Ian Anderson, frontman of defunct prog-rock band Jethro Tull. The backpack contained metal items used in “wood manufacturing” and could have… Read full this story

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