德国巴伐利亚州发生自杀式爆炸

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.

德国巴伐利亚州最高安全官员表示，上周日晚，一名27岁的叙利亚籍男子在被拒绝进入一个音乐节会场后自爆并导致12人受伤，这名男子此前曾申请避难但遭拒绝。

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.

发生在安斯巴赫市的这起爆炸，是德国一周内发生的第四起暴力事件。爆炸发生时，德国仍因一起枪击事件而笼罩在不安情绪中。上周五，一名18岁的德籍伊朗裔枪手在慕尼黑打死了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.

巴伐利亚州内政部长约阿希姆•赫尔曼(Joachim Herrmann)表示：“我们不知道这名男子是打算自杀还是有意杀害他人。”

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.

赫尔曼还说，这名男子的避难申请在一年前遭拒，但考虑到叙利亚国内的局势，他被允许留在德国。

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.

当局表示，上周日晚10时后不久，有人提醒他们安斯巴赫市市中心发生了爆炸。赫尔曼表示，12名受害者中有三人伤势严重。

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

安斯巴赫市检察官办公室的一名发言人称，袭击者的动机仍不清楚。

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

这位名叫米夏埃尔•施罗特贝格尔(Michael Schrotberger)的发言人表示：“目前而言，此事是否与伊斯兰主义者有关还纯属一种猜测。”

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.

当地警方表示，爆炸发生不到24小时前，在德国南部城市罗伊特林根，一名叙利亚难民因用砍刀杀害一名妇女并袭击另外两人被捕。而一周前，在维尔茨堡一列火车上发生了持斧袭击事件，导致数人受伤。