2016 Ansbach bombing
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On 24 July 2016, fifteen people were injured, four seriously, in a suicide bombing outside a wine bar in Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany.[3] The bomber, identified by police as Mohammad Daleel, was a 27-year-old Syrian asylum seeker who had pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State. He was the only fatality in the incident.[4][5] According to German authorities, Daleel was in contact with the Islamic State and had been planning more attacks before his backpack bomb exploded accidentally.[6]
2016 Ansbach bombing | |
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Part of terrorism in Germany (Islamic terrorism in Europe and the spillover of the Syrian Civil War) | |
Location | Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany |
Coordinates | 49°18′0″N 10°35′0″E |
Date | 24 July 2016 (2016-07-24) 22:12 (CEST) |
Attack type | Suicide bombing[1] |
Weapons | IED |
Deaths | 1 (the perpetrator) |
Injured | 15[2] |
Perpetrator | Mohammad Daleel[2] |
Motive | Jihadism |
The incident followed three other violent incidents that occurred in Germany within a week.[7][8][9] The Ansbach bombing was the first suicide bombing in Germany by Islamic terrorists,[10][11] and the first since World War II. 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.[12]