ANSBACH, Germany (AP) - Bavaria's top security official says a man who blew himself up after being turned away from an open-air music festival in the southern German city of Ansbach was a 27-year-old Syrian who had been denied asylum.
"We don't know if this man planned on suicide or if he had the intention of killing others," Joachim Herrmann said.
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He added that the man's request for asylum was rejected a year ago, but he was allowed to remain in Germany on account of the situation in Syria.
Twelve people were injured in the explosion, which came two days after a man went on a deadly rampage at a Munich mall, killing nine people, and after an ax attack on a train near Wuerzburg last Monday wounded five.