{"id":233935,"date":"2016-07-25T06:52:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T06:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=233935"},"modified":"2016-07-25T06:52:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T06:52:03","slug":"syrian-blows-himself-up-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/syrian-blows-himself-up-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian blows himself up in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"
A failed Syrian asylum seeker has blown himself up and injured 12 other people with a backpack bomb near a festival in the south German town of Ansbach.<\/p>\n
The state of Bavaria’s interior minister said the 27-year-old man had detonated the device after being refused entry to the music festival.<\/p>\n
About 2,500 people were evacuated from the venue after the explosion.<\/p>\n
Bavaria has been on edge since a knife rampage on a train claimed by so-called Islamic State last Monday.<\/p>\n
The Ansbach blast is reported to have happened at about 22:10 (20:10 GMT) outside the Eugens Weinstube bar in the centre of the town, which has a population of 40,000 and is home to a US military base.<\/p>\n
The bomb went off close to the entrance to the Ansbach Open music festival.<\/p>\n
A witness, Thomas Debinski, reported “panic” after the explosion, although some people had thought it was caused by a gas explosion.<\/p>\n
“Then people came past and said it was a rucksack that had exploded,” he told Sky News.<\/p>\n