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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 |
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| 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: | |
| Related: The Guardian view on the Munich killings: a fearful Europe must hold its nerve | Editorial | |
| 1.20am BST | |
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| 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 | 1.03am BST |
| 01:03 | 01:03 |
| Ansbach is town of about 40,000 people near Nuremberg in Bavaria. | 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. | The region has already been shaken by the shooting dead of nine people by a teeenage gunman in Munich 200 kms away on Friday. |
| Updated | |
| at 1.36am BST | |
| 12.59am BST | 12.59am BST |
| 00:59 | 00:59 |
| 'Explosive device,' says mayor | '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 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | Bavarian interior minister Joachim Herrmann was en route to the site, the spokesman said. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 1.01am BST | at 1.01am BST |