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| Syrian terror suspect Jaber al-Bakr commits suicide in cell in Germany | |
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| A Syrian migrant suspected of planning a bomb attack on a Berlin airport has committed suicide in his prison cell in Leipzig, Germany. | A Syrian migrant suspected of planning a bomb attack on a Berlin airport has committed suicide in his prison cell in Leipzig, Germany. |
| The website of Der Spiegel said Jaber al-Bakr had been on hunger strike and was under round-the-clock surveillance. | The website of Der Spiegel said Jaber al-Bakr had been on hunger strike and was under round-the-clock surveillance. |
| He had been turned in to police on Monday by three Syrian refugees after being on the run for two days. | |
| German police had been watching him for months, but failed to arrest him when they raided his flat on Saturday. | German police had been watching him for months, but failed to arrest him when they raided his flat on Saturday. |
| Germany urged to reward Syrian refugees who arrested fugitive | |
| Al-Bakr, 22, had been granted asylum after coming to Germany last year. | |
| German intelligence apparently had received reports last week that he might be planning an attack, and they alerted police in the eastern state of Saxony. | |
| Authorities discovered last Thursday that the suspect had used the internet to get bomb-making instructions and had obtained explosives. | |
| When police raided the flat in the eastern city of Chemnitz, they found 1.5kg of explosives. | |
| German officials identified them as TATP, a home-made explosive used in the deadly jihadist attacks in Paris last year and in Brussels last March. The explosives were, police said, "extremely dangerous". | |
| The authorities believe al-Bakr had links to the group that calls itself Islamic State. |