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1 dead and 12 injured, so far.
Wow, so much going on in my country at the moment.
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One person has been killed and another 12 people injured after a “deliberate explosion” outside a music festival in the German town of Ansbach.
Authorities said the person who died is believed to have set off the explosion and was carrying a backpack at the time of the blast, at about 10pm on Sunday.
Three of those injured are believed to be in a serious condition.
The mayor of Ansbach, a town near Nuremberg in Bavaria, told reporters the blast had been caused deliberately.
Police later added: “An explosion went off in the city centre and a man, which the latest enquiries show caused it, was killed in the event.”
As many as 2,500 people are said to have been attending the music festival at the time of the explosion. The entire area has been evacuated and the festival cancelled.
Police have blocked off the city centre and emergency services were on the scene. Bomb experts were on their way to determine the cause of the explosion.
The explosion, which followed the killing on Friday of nine people by an 18-year-old gunman in Munich, occurred at a wine bar called Eugene’s, the Nürnberger Nachrichten newspaper reported. A music festival was taking place in the town on Sunday.
Police had said earlier the explosion might have been caused by a gas leak.
But a spokesman for the Bavarian interior ministry later said the explosion was not an accident and appeared to have been intentional.
The interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, is travelling to the scene, the spokesman said.
“The explosion was set off deliberately,” said Michael Siefener, a spokesman for the regional interior ministry, adding that authorities were trying to establish the exact cause.
Ansbach police said in a statement that just after 10pm on Sunday they were alerted to an explosion in the city centre.
Wow, so much going on in my country at the moment.
