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Bomb-carrying Syrian dies outside German music festival; 12 wounded

Police officers leave the flat of the 27-year-old Syrian suspect after an explosion in Ansbach near Nuremberg, Germany. (Photo: Reuters)

A 27-year-old Syrian man denied asylum in Germany a year ago died on Sunday when he set off a bomb outside a crowded music festival in Bavaria, an official said, in the fourth violent attack in the country in less than a week.

Police said a dozen people were wounded, including three seriously, in the attack in Ansbach, a town of 40,000 people southwest of Nuremberg that is also home to a U.S. Army base.

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