Explosion in Ansbach, Germany

[Divemaster]

There has been an explosion at a restaurant in Ansbach with at least one fatality. Early reports indicate a gas explosion, but not confirmed. For now this is not for the terrorism thread. For now.

[Divemaster]

Site of the explosion translates, center of the map, I believe, to Eugene's Wine Bar (I don't speak or read German). Again, the early reports say it was a gas explosion. However, a nearby festival has been evacuated.

Hopefully there is nothing to see here.

ETA: Sky News also reporting "Eugene's Wine Bar" as the site. http://news.sky.com/story/one-dead-a...urant-10511772

[Dusty]

I liked that town. That's where I went to PNCOC or BNCOC. Maybe both.
Prayers out

[Divemaster]

Hearing some very interesting but UNCONFIRMED reports. Holding off on posting about it until I get some more solid sources.

[Divemaster]

The mayor of Ansbach has said it was an explosive device. The earlier reports I was hearing was that the Bavarian state minister was enroute from Berlin and that the armed police response was extremely heave, both contraindicating a simple gas explosion.

http://bit.ly/2a4gIgH

[Divemaster]

Indicators of a suicide bombing appearing.

The Associated Press ‏@AP 6m6 minutes ago
BREAKING: Police say man, a likely attacker, dies in explosion in southern Germany; 10 others injured.

[Divemaster]

BBC News covering the bombing now. Ch. 346 for DirecTV customers.

[tonyz]

Confirmations trickling in...

Blast in German city of Ansbach that killed one 'caused by explosive device'
Telegraph
25 JULY 2016 • 12:11AM
Chiara Palazzo

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...german-city-o/

[Divemaster]

Currently looking at 1 dead (bomber?), 11 wounded, over 2,000 evacuated from a music festival.

http://bit.ly/2a8KoEb

01:02, UK, Monday 25 July 2016

At least one person has been killed in an explosion outside a wine bar in the German city of Ansbach near Nuremberg.

Bavaria's interior ministry has said that the explosion was not an accident, adding: "We assume it was deliberate."

Detectives believe that the man who died was likely to have been the attacker, who may have been carrying the explosive device.

According to Suddeutsche Zeitung, the explosion happened in front of the wine bar - not far from the entrance of a music festival.

More than 2,000 people were evacuated from that event, which has now been cancelled.

A large-scale operation involving police and rescue workers is under way, and a helicopter has been summoned to the scene.

Joachim Herrmann, Germany's interior minister, has left Berlin for the city, and a nearby music festival has been cancelled.

[Patrin]

Low body count for a suicide bomber...less the bomb was somehow defective. Then, again, from your reports DM, may be too early for a final tally.

Germany is heating up.

[Divemaster]

Bavarian Interior Minister Herrmann has said the suicide bomber was a 27-year old Syrian national who first tried to enter the music festival.

[Sdiver]

Originally Posted by Divemaster

Bavarian Interior Minister Herrmann has said the suicide bomber was a 27-year old Syrian national who first tried to enter the music festival.

That's the first thing I thought of as this story was breaking.

He was wanting to detonate it inside the festival grounds.

[Pete]

Syrian asylum seeker blows himself up outside wine bar

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/692...-Germany-Blast

"The attack took place in Ansbach, near Nuremburg, after the 27-year-old was denied access to the nearby Ansbach Open music festival, according to Germany's interior minister Joachim Herrmann.

Herrmann said the suspect, who was known to police, had lived in Germany for two years but was denied asylum in the country a year ago....."

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by Pete

...the suspect, who was known to police...

Gosh, sir, I've never seen that phrase.

[Divemaster]

Anyone shocked by this?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36882831

Ansbach explosion: Bomber pledged allegiance to IS

The Syrian man who blew himself up in Ansbach, Germany, on Sunday made a video pledging allegiance to the leader of so-called Islamic State, Bavaria's interior minister says.
Joachim 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.
The man threatened a "revenge attack" on Germans in the video, he said.
IS has claimed it was behind the attack and the Syrian was an IS "soldier".
Fifteen people were injured, four of them seriously, when the man's explosive device went off close to a music festival in the small town, which is near Nuremberg.
The attacker announced in the video "in the name of Allah that he pledged allegiance to [IS chief] Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi... and announced an act of revenge against Germans because they were standing in the way of Islam," Mr Hermann said.
Germany was already reeling after five people were wounded on a train in another part of Bavaria a week ago by an axe-wielding teenager from Afghanistan who had pledged allegiance to IS.
On Friday nine people were killed by a teenage gunman in the state capital, Munich, who then shot himself dead. That incident was not believed to be jihadist-inspired.