BREAKING NEWS: ‘Suitcase bomb’ detonated near immigration reception centre in Germany
A SUSPECTED suitcase bomb has been detonated outside an immigration office near the German city of Nuremberg this afternoon.
By NICK GUTTERIDGE
Express.co.uk
Wed, Jul 27, 2016
German media said the explosion occurred near the Federal Office for Migration in Zirndorf, Bavaria, where the cases of newly arrived refugees are processed.
According to media reports, a suitcase packed with highly flammable aerosol cannisters was detonated around 200 yards away from the building.
Armed officers were rushed to the scene and a police operation is ongoing, according to a police spokeswoman.
She added that witnesses heard a loud bang and discovered a burning suitcase on a footpath near the immigration centre.
German media reported that police carried out a raid just yards from the reception centre on Wednesday.
Witnesses described how people fled the scene in panic as a huge bang ripped through the quiet neighbourhood.
The German interior ministry this afternoon described the explosion as “small” and said that nobody had been injured. German police said that a man and a woman planted the suitcase that exploded, confirming that nobody was hurt in the explosion.
Yesterday Bavaria state premier Horst Seehofer warned that “Islamist terror” had arrived in German following a spate of high profile attacks over the last week.
There is no indication as yet that today’s events are linked to terrorism.
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