Asylum seeker self detonates in Germany

A Syrian asylum seeker has blown himself up with a backpack bomb, injuring 12 people, close to a festival in the south German town of Ansbach. It is understood that the man first entered Germany two years ago, but has since had his asylum claim rejected. He had been granted leave to stay temporarily in an apartment in Ansbach. The 27-year-old man detonated his backpack bomb after being refused entry to the a local music festival, causing the evacuation of 2,500 people. While there were no further fatalities, the attack comes a week after a teenager from Afghanistan injured five people as part of a knife rampage on a train in Bavaria, in which ISIL claimed responsibility. On 22 July, a German teenager of Iranian extraction shot dead nine people, most of them migrants, in Munich, before shooting himself. Bavarian authorities have found further bomb-making equipment where the man was living, including a fuel canister, hydrogen peroxide and batteries. Bavarian interior minister Joachim Hermann has said authorities have found a video at the home of the asylum seeker pledging allegiance to the leader of so-called Islamic State. On 22 July, a German teenager of Iranian extraction shot dead nine people, most of them migrants, in Munich, before shooting himself.