People gather to mourn with flower tributes near to the Olympia shopping center where a shooting took place leaving nine people dead the day before in Munich, Germany, Saturday, July 23, 2016. As Germans mourned, police in the German city of Ansback reported that a man was killed by an explosive device near an open-air festival. Police said the lone fatality was apparently carrying the bomb that killed him. AP
BERLIN, Germany — Police in the southern German city of Ansbach say a man was killed when an explosive device he was believed to be carrying went off near an open-air music festival, injuring 10 people.
Ansbach police said in a statement early Monday that just after 10 p.m. Sunday they were alerted to an explosion in the city center.
They said that “a man, according to our current knowledge the perpetrator, died” in the blast.
The Agence France Presse reported that 11 others were hurt by the explosion.
Meanwhile, Ansback Mayor Carda Seidel was quoted by Munich’s Focus magazine as saying that the explosion late Sunday night was near the entrance to an open-air music festival.
Dpa reports the open-air concert with some 2,500 in attendance was shut down as a precaution after the explosion.
Germany is on edge after a deadly rampage at a Munich mall on Friday in which nine people were killed and an ax attack on a train near Wuerzburg last Monday in which five people were wounded.