2016 Ansbach bombing
| 2016 Ansbach bombing | |
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| Part of Terrorism in Germany (Islamic terrorism in Europe (2014–present) and Spillover of the Syrian Civil War) | |
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Eugens Weinstube, where the explosion happened
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 Site of explosion. ☐ Venue area.① Entrance / Ticket checkpoint Pfarrstraße. |
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| Location | Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany |
| Coordinates | 49°18′0″N 10°35′0″E / 49.30000°N 10.58333°ECoordinates: 49°18′0″N 10°35′0″E / 49.30000°N 10.58333°E |
| Date | 24 July 2016 22:12 (CEST) |
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Attack type
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Suicide bombing |
| Weapons | IED |
| Deaths | 1 (the perpetrator) |
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Non-fatal injuries
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15 |
| Perpetrator | Mohammad Daleel |
① Entrance / Ticket checkpoint Pfarrstraße.
On 24 July 2016, fifteen people were injured, four seriously, in a suicide bombing outside a wine bar in Ansbach, Germany. The bomber, identified as Mohammad Daleel, was a 27-year-old Syrian refugee who had pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State. He was the only fatality in the incident. According to German authorities, Daleel was in contact with the Islamic State and had been planning more attacks before his backpack bomb exploded accidentally.
The incident followed three other attacks in Germany within a week, including a knife attack that killed a pregnant woman in Reutlingen earlier in the day,a mass shooting that killed nine people in Munich several days earlier, and a train attack in Würzburg. All of these were committed by people of Middle Eastern or Pashtun background, all of whom, save for the Munich shooter, were refugees or asylum seekers that recently came to Germany.
The Ansbach bombing was the first suicide bombing in Germany by Islamic terrorists, and the first since WW2. Cüneyt Çiftçi, the perpetrator of a 2008 suicide bombing in Afghanistan, who had previously lived in Ansbach, is considered the first suicide bomber to have been born and raised in Germany.
At 22:12 CEST (20:12 UTC), a bomb exploded outside Eugens Weinstube (Eugene's Wine Bar) in Ansbach, Germany and injured fifteen people, four seriously. The explosion occurred near the entrance to the Ansbach Open music festival with around 2,500 people in attendance. It was initially thought to have been caused by a gas leak. Daleel was communicating with someone online immediately before the blast. Daleel was in communication with a telephone number in Saudi Arabia minutes before the attack. He carried a backpack filled with screws, nails, and miscellaneous metal parts used in wood manufacturing and was denied entry into the music festival shortly before the blast because he had no ticket. Thereafter, witnesses say, Daleel sat outside Eugene's Wine Bar, leaned forward, and detonated an improvised explosive device. Emergency personnel arrived and attempted to resuscitate Daleel, but he was already dead.
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