A 27-year-old
Syrian man denied asylum in Germany a year ago died on Sunday when he
set off a bomb outside a crowded music festival in Bavaria, the fourth
violent attack in Germany in less than a week, a senior Bavarian state
official said.
Police said
12 people were wounded, including three seriously, in the attack in
Ansbach, a small town of 40,000 people southwest of Nuremberg that is
also home to a U.S. Army base.
Earlier on Sunday, a 21-year-old Syrian refugee
was arrested after killing a pregnant woman and wounding two people with
a machete in the southwestern city of Reutlingen, near Stuttgart.
The
incident will add to growing public unease surrounding Chancellor Angela
Merkel’s open-door refugee policy, under which more than a million
migrants have entered Germany over the past year, many fleeing wars in
Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.
