The explosion thundered in the restaurant of the German city of Ansbach

Late on Sunday evening in one of the restaurants of the German city of Ansbach (Bavaria land) there was an explosion. According to updated data, one person died, another 12 were injured. The head of Ansbach Kard Zaydel said that an explosive device worked in the institution. This information was confirmed in the Bavarian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Reuters reports that the state of the three victims is regarded as difficult. As for the only deceased, he, with a high degree of probability, was an attack by the attack, according to the local police. A backpack was discovered on his body, in which, probably, there was a bomb.

According to the latest information voiced by the Bavaria Ministry of Internal Affairs, the author of the attack on the restaurant is a 27 -year -old Syrian, to whom the German authorities refused to provide asylum a year ago. Shortly before the explosion, he tried to penetrate the musical festival nearby nearby, where more than 2000 people were present, but security officers did not miss him there.

As SueDdeutsche Zeitung notes, the explosion occurred in a wine restaurant in the central part of the city. The police cordoned off the territory around the institution. Emergency services and ambulance cars work on the spot.

The Nordbayern.de portal clarifies that the explosion occurred in a cafe called Eugens Weinstube. As noted, in the immediate vicinity of the scene of the explosion, a three -day music festival takes place, which attracts many visitors. The emergency forced local authorities to interrupt the event and evacuate guests.

The first video from the scene of the explosion appeared on the network. As the author of the video notes, whose voice is heard in the last seconds of the record, the people gathered at the site of the emergency discussed the shootout and the actions of the special forces.

It should be noted that the local NTV television channel, citing its sources, first reported that the gas leak is a probable cause of the explosion.

A message about the explosion was received by the police at about 22:15 local time (23:15 in Moscow), RIA Novosti reports. The incident occurred on Pfarrratrasse Street.

It should be noted that the loud attacks on civilians are amazing Germany all week, and three of them occurred directly in Bavaria.

So, on July 18, a native of Afghanistan, who came to the country as a minor unaccompanied, arranged a massacre on a train following from German Troihtlingen to Würzburg. An attacker, armed with an ax and a knife, wounded five people. At the same time, he shouted Allah Akbar, and in his personal things they found a note indicating his commitment to radical Islamists.

A few days later, an 18-year-old native of Iran with a German passport opened shooting at theOlympia shopping center in Munich. The number of those killed as a result of the attack amounted to 9 people, more than 20 were hospitalized. The attacker was wounded in a shootout with the police, and later committed suicide.

The day before, on the day of the explosion in Ansbach, the Syrian refugee, armed with a machete , attacked people in the German city of Roitlingen (Federal Land Baden-Württemberg). As a result of the attack, a woman died, two more people were injured. Thanks to the rapid police intervention, the criminal was detained a few minutes later near the scene.