One person has been killed and 10 others injured following in a bomb blast in southern
Germany, the authorities confirm.
The mayor of Ansbach, a town near Nuremberg in Bavaria, told
reporters that the explosion on Sunday evening had been caused deliberately,
according to the Nordbayern.de news website.
The blast, which followed the killing of nine people by an
18-year-old gunman in Munich on Friday, occurred at a restaurant, the
Nuernberger Nachrichten newspaper reported. A music festival was taking place
in the town on Sunday.
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Police had said earlier that the explosion might have been
caused by a gas leak.
A spokesman for the Bavarian interior ministry said the
explosion was not an accident and appeared to have been intentional.
The minister, Joachim Herrmann, was en route to the site,
the spokesman said.
Guardian reportage.
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