Germany steps up security following suicide attack
Bavaria’s interior minister, Joachim Hermann, said the Syrian man who blew himself up in the attack had pledged allegiance to the group calling itself Islamic State in a video message found on his mobile phone.
Mr Hermann said two phones, multiple SIM cards and a laptop were found with the body of the 27-year-old asylum seeker or at his accommodation and video shows him threatening a ‘revenge attack’.
Fifteen people were injured in the attack, outside a wine bar near to where a music festival was taking place.
According to reports, the man had tried to get into the festival but was turned away because he did not have a ticket. He then blew himself up outside.
Bavarian authorities said that the bomb was clearly meant to kill as many people as possible.
Further bomb-making equipment was found at the asylum seeker accommodation where the man was living.
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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