A 27-year-old Syrian man, who faced deportation to Bulgaria a year ago, blew himself up with a backpack bomb outside a crowded music festival in southern Germany, city of Ansbach and injured 12 people on Sunday.
About 2,500 people were evacuated from the venue after the explosion.
A spokeswoman for the Bavarian state police force said on Monday, it was unclear wether the men were Islamic militant, and that the investigations is continuing.
German newspaper, Die Welt, quoted the Bavarian Interior Minister, Joachim Herrmann, previously said, "my personal view is that it is unfortunately very likely that Islamic suicide attack is actually happening here."
Ansbach blast is reported to have occured around 10.10pm, outside Eugens Weinstube bar in the city center, which has a population of 40,000, southwest of Nuremberg and is home to a U.S. military base. Police said, three of the 12 wounded were in a serious condition.
The bomb exploded near the entrance to the Ansbach Open music festival.
A witness, Thomas Debinski, reported "panic" after the explosion, although some people think it was caused by a gas explosion.
"Then people came past and said it was a backpack that has exploded," he told Sky News.
The offender had been in treatment after twice before tried to commit suicide, though the blast on the Sunday night was more than just "a pure suicide attemp", an Islamic link can not be ruled out, Herrmann told reporters earlier.
"It's terrible...that someone who came to our country to seek refuge now had committed a heinous act and injured a large number of people who are at home here, some seriously," Herrmann added in a press conference on Monday morning.
Security services have sealed off the city center and experts are trying to establish the kind of explosives used by bomber.
source:
BBC News
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