A suicide bombing rocked the southern German city of Ansbach outside a music festival in which a person was killed and around 12 injured.
According to CNN, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said that the device was exploded by a 27-year-old Syrian national outside a music festival.
The man, who has not yet been named, stood around the festival entrance for a short period before he blew himself up.
Authorities state that the bomber had previously applied for asylum in Germany but had had his application rejected and was also known to police in Ansbach for previous offenses, ANI reported.
Violence has struck Germany in several places recently as on Sunday, a man killed a woman with a machete in Reutlingen.
Belfast Telegraph reported that around 2,500 people were evacuated from a nearby open-air music event where the attacker, who had been in Germany for more than a year, tried to gain entry.
France 24 reported local officials saying that a Syrian man who was denied asylum in Germany a year ago died on Sunday when he set off a bomb outside a crowded music festival in the Bavarian city of Ansbach, injuring 12 other people.
