The 27-year-old bomber, a Syrian man who was denied asylum last year, injured 12 people in a packed wine bar attack in Ansbach, near Nuremberg last night (left). The unnamed bomber was turned away from an open-air music festival filled with 2,500 people because he didn't have a ticket. Instead he walked to a bar in the centre of Ansback and detonated his bomb, said to be packed with
metal fragments and kept in a rucksack (main picture and inset). He died and 12 others were injured, three seriously (bottom left). Bavaria's top security official Joachim Herrmann said this morning that he believed the attacker was driven by religious extremism, adding: 'My personal view is that I unfortunately think it's very likely this really was an Islamist suicide attack.' Police are today guarding the Syrian's home (bottom right) in Ansbach, as it emerged he had been refused asylum but still allowed to stay in Germany to avoid returning to his home country. A hearse containing his remains left the scene of the bombing at dawn this morning (top right). The terror attack came as Germany remains on high alert in the wake of three other violent attacks across the country in just one week.
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