BERLIN (CBS News) — Police in the southern German city of Ansbach say a man was killed when an explosive device he was believed to be carrying went off near an open-air music festival, injuring 10 people.
An “explosive device” blew up in the center of the Bavarian city of Ansbach, killing one person and injuring 11 others, the city’s mayor told local media early Monday.
Ansbach police said in a statement early Monday that just after 10 p.m. Sunday they were alerted to an explosion in the city center.
They said that “a man, according to our current knowledge the perpetrator, died” in the blast.
Bavarian interior ministry spokesman says more than 2,000 people have been evacuated from nearby music festival after the explosion, Reuters reported.
Ansbach police could not immediately be reached for further comment.
Germany is on edge after a deadly rampage at a Munich mall on Friday in which nine people were killed and an ax attack on a train near Wuerzburg last Monday in which five people were wounded.
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