德國巴伐利亞州發生自殺式爆炸

A man who blew himself up and injured 12 people on Sunday night after being turned away from a music festival was a 27-year-old Syrian who had been denied asylum, Bavaria’s top security official has said.

德國巴伐利亞州最高安全官員表示，上週日晚，一名27歲的敘利亞籍男子在被拒絕進入一個音樂節會場後自爆並導致12人受傷，這名男子此前曾申請避難但遭拒絕。

The blast in the city of Ansbach 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.

發生在安斯巴赫市的這起爆炸，是德國一週內發生的第四起暴力事件。爆炸發生時，德國仍因一起槍擊事件而籠罩在不安情緒中。上週五，一名18歲的德籍伊朗裔槍手在慕尼黑打死了9人。

“We don’t know if this man planned on suicide or if he had the intention of killing others,” said Joachim Herrmann, the state’s interior minister.

巴伐利亞州內政部長約阿希姆•赫爾曼(Joachim Herrmann)表示：“我們不知道這名男子是打算自殺還是有意殺害他人。”

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.

赫爾曼還說，這名男子的避難申請在一年前遭拒，但考慮到敘利亞國內的局勢，他被允許留在德國。

Authorities said they had been alerted to an explosion in the city centre shortly after 10pm on Sunday. Three of the 12 victims suffered serious injuries, Mr Herrmann said.

當局表示，上週日晚10時後不久，有人提醒他們安斯巴赫市市中心發生了爆炸。赫爾曼表示，12名受害者中有三人傷勢嚴重。

A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Ansbach said the attacker’s motive was not clear.

安斯巴赫市檢察官辦公室的一名發言人稱，襲擊者的動機仍不清楚。

“If there is an Islamist link or not is purely speculation at this point,” said the spokesman, Michael Schrotberger.

這位名叫米夏埃爾•施羅特貝格爾(Michael Schrotberger)的發言人表示：“目前而言，此事是否與伊斯蘭主義者有關還純屬一種猜測。”

Less than 24 hours earlier a Syrian refugee was arrested in the southern German city of Reutlingen after killing a woman with a machete and attacking two other people, local police said. An axe attack on a train a week ago in Würzburg injured several people.

當地警方表示，爆炸發生不到24小時前，在德國南部城市羅伊特林根，一名敘利亞難民因用砍刀殺害一名婦女並襲擊另外兩人被捕。而一週前，在維爾茨堡一列火車上發生了持斧襲擊事件，導致數人受傷。