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| Ansbach explosion: one dead and 11 injured in German town after 'deliberate' blast - latest | Ansbach explosion: one dead and 11 injured in German town after 'deliberate' blast - latest |
| (35 minutes later) | |
| 1.20am BST | |
| 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. | |
| 1.12am BST | |
| 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. | |
| 1.03am BST | |
| 01:03 | |
| Ansbach is town of about 40,000 people near Nuremberg in Bavaria. | |
| The region has already been shaken by the shooting dead of nine people by a teeenage gunman in Munich 200 kms away on Friday. | |
| 12.59am BST | |
| 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. | |
| 12.49am BST | 12.49am BST |
| 00:49 | 00:49 |
| Reports are coming in of an explosion in the southern German town of Ansbach. | 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. | 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 |