{"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

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Three of the injured were in a serious condition, police said.<\/p>\n

Security services have sealed off the city centre and experts are trying to establish the kind of explosives the bomber used.<\/p>\n

Seven deadly days<\/strong><\/p>\n

A week of bloody attacks involving migrants has frayed nerves in Germany, which led the way in accepting asylum seekers from Syria. To date, only the first has been linked to a militant group:<\/p>\n

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  • 18 July: <\/strong>An axe-wielding teenage asylum seeker from Afghanistan is shot dead after injuring five people in an attack on a train. IS claims the attack, releasing a video recorded by the attacker before the incident<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • 22 July:<\/strong> A German teenager of Iranian extraction goes on a shooting rampage in the Bavarian state capital, Munich, killing nine people, most of them migrants, before shooting himself. He is said to have been obsessed with school shootings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      • 24 July: <\/strong>A Syrian asylum seeker is arrested in the town of Reutlingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, after allegedly killing a Polish woman with a machete and injuring two other people. Police suggest it was probably a “crime of passion”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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        • 24 July: <\/strong>A failed Syrian asylum seeker blows himself up outside a music festival in the small Bavarian town of Ansbach, injuring 12 other people. Motive not immediately clear<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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          Failed asylum bid<\/strong><\/p>\n

          The Syrian man entered Germany two years ago and had his asylum claim rejected a year ago, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said.<\/p>\n

          He had been given leave to stay temporarily given the situation in his home country and provided with an apartment in Ansbach, Mr Herrmann added.<\/p>\n

          The minister said he was “incensed” by the attack which, he continued, demonstrated the need to “strengthen controls on those we have living in our country”.<\/p>\n

          Mr Herrmann said the man had been known to have tried to take his own life twice and had spent time in a psychiatric clinic.<\/p>\n

          “We don’t know if this man planned on suicide or if he had the intention of killing others,” he said.<\/p>\n

          However, the bomb in the backpack would have been sufficient to kill and injure many more people, he added.<\/p>\n

          Ansbach deputy police chief Roman Fertinger said there were “indications” that pieces of metal had been added to the explosive device.<\/p>\n

          –<\/p>\n

          Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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