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A bomb attack has injured 12 people outside a German music festival in the Southern town of Ansbach.
As The Guardian reports, the atrocity was carried out by a 27-year-old Syrian man who had been denied asylum in the town.
The assailant was denied entry into an open-air music festival in Ansbach in Bavaria, after not having a ticket. The festival, attended by around 2,500 people, was evacuated after the blast, but 12 people were injured and three said to be in a serious condition - but no one apart from the attacker was killed. Ian Anderson,former frontman of Jethro Tull, had been scheduled to perform.
It has not yet been confirmed whether it was a suicide attack, or whether the bomb was intended to be passed on the harm others. It is said that the bomb was loaded with enough explosives and nails to have harmed many more people.
“If there is an Islamist link or not is purely speculation at this point,” said the prosecutor's spokesman Michael Schrotberger.
“It’s terrible ... that someone who came into our country to seek shelter has now committed such a heinous act and injured a large number of people who are at home here, some seriously."
He added: “It’s a further, horrific attack that will increase the already growing security concerns of our citizens. We must do everything possible to prevent the spread of such violence in our country by people who came here to ask for asylum.”
Thiss comes after Germany saw another tragedy when an 18-year-old gunman killed nine people in Munich last week.
