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Ansbach explosion: one dead and 11 injured in German town after 'deliberate' blast - latest
Martin Farrer

1.48am BST 01:48
Suspect was wearing a backpack, say police

Police in Ansbach have just said that the suspected attacker was carrying a backpack when the explosion occurred.

Police did not say whether the suspect intended to blow himself up or not. There were no other details on his identity.
A video grab showing emergency workers and vehicles following the explosion in Ansbach on Sunday night.
A video grab showing emergency workers and vehicles following the explosion in Ansbach on Sunday night. Photograph: Reuters Tv/Reuters

13m ago 01:34

Germany has been in a heightened state of alert since the Munich shootings on Friday. People have been urged to stay at home as the chancellor, Angela Merkel, tries to calm fears about a string of attacks on civilians.

In addition to the Munich shootings, a teenager was shot dead in Würzburg in Bavaria last Monday after attacking people on a train. On Sunday a woman was killed with a machete in Reutlingen, also in Bavaria.

A Guardian editorial today tries to make sense of the “fearful” mood gripping Europe, which has also endured the Bastille Day attacks in Nice and the Paris terror attacks last November. The reasons behind the incidents are all different but the cumulative effect is to increase fear, it says.

All raise genuine fears about wider personal safety. All fuel a more alarmist public mood and debate. In part, that is because they are so random, never directly provoked by the victims, except in the psychosis of the attacker. In part, it is because they often have radical Islamist terror connections or echoes, though not apparently in the Munich case, which plays into anti-immigrant fears.

But it urges Europe to hold its nerve.

Read the whole article here:

Violent attacks in France and now Germany have raised fear levels and the dangers of an anti-migrant backlash. But Europe should remember that it is one of the safest parts of the globe

28m ago 01:20

The music festival in the town for 2,500 people on Sunday has now been cancelled. Armed police are patrolling the streets of the historic town.
A policeman with a machine gun in the centre of Ansbach in the early hours of Monday.
A policeman with a machine gun in the centre of Ansbach in the early hours of Monday. Photograph: Daniel Karmann/EPA

36m ago 01:12
'Perpretrator killed by device,' police believe

The police in Ansbach have said that the explosion was “deliberately brought about”, our reporter in the region Janek Schimdt says.

The dead person is probably the perpetrator of the explosion, according to the “current knowledge” of the police.

The police confirmed that another 11 people were injured in the incident.

45m ago 01:03

Updated at 1.36am BST

48m ago 00:59
'Explosive device,' says mayor

The city’s mayor, Carda Seidel, told local media in the early hours of Monday that the blast in Ansbach was caused by an “explosive device”.

The website for a group of local newspapers, nordbayern.de, reported that Seidel said it was not yet clear if it was an attack or how the device was triggered.

Seidel said the explosion had occurred at a wine bar or restaurant.

Local media were also reporting that the bar was at the entrance to an open-air music festival being staged in the town.

1h ago 00:49

Reports are coming in of an explosion in the southern German town of Ansbach.

The explosion has killed one person and injured 11 according to reports.

A spokesman for the Bavarian interior ministry said the explosion was not an accident and appears to have been intentional.

Bavarian interior minister Joachim Herrmann was en route to the site, the spokesman said.

Updated at 1.01am BST


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