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Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Nuremberg Suicide Bombing

The explosion outside a crowded music festival killed one and left ten others injured in Nuremberg, Germany. 

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Islamic State claimed responsibility for the explosion where a man blew himself up on Sunday outside a crowded music festival, killing at least one person and injuring 10 others near the German city of Nuremberg on Sunday.

A 27-year-old Syrian man who was denied asylum in Germany a year ago was responsible for the attacks.

It was the fourth violent incident in Germany in a week and came as the country was still on edge after the killing of nine people by an 18-year-old Iranian-German gunman in Munich on Friday.

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The blast in the town of Ansbach prompted the evacuation of more than 2,000 people from a nearby music festival, authorities said.

Police offered no immediate details on the individuals killed or those injured but said the explosion occured inside a restaurant, according to local media.

It’s terrible ... that someone who came into our country to seek shelter has now committed such a heinous act and injured a large number of people who are at home here. 
Joachim Herrmann, Bavarian Interior Minister

Herrmann said the Syrian asylum seeker arrived in Germany two years ago and had been in trouble with local police repeatedly for drug-taking and other offences.

A provisional translation by an interpreter shows that he expressly announces, in the name of Allah, and testifying his allegiance to (Islamic State leader) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi... an act of revenge against the Germans because they’re getting in the way of Islam. I think that after this video, there’s no doubt that the attack was a terrorist attack with an Islamist background.
Joachim Herrmann, Bavarian Interior Minister

(With inputs from Reuters.)

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