DHAKA: A failed shelter seeker from Syria killed himself and injured 12 other people after setting off a bomb near an open-air music festival in the German city of Ansbach.

Bavaria's interior minister said that the 27-year-old man detonated a backpack device after being refused entry to the festival in the southern city.

About 2,500 people were evacuated from the venue after the explosion. It is the third attack in the state of Bavaria in a week, BBC reports on Monday (July 25).

A shooting rampage in Munich on Friday left nine dead while an axe-wielding teenager was shot dead after injuring four people on a train a week ago in Wuerzburg.

The explosion is reported to have happened outside a bar in the city which is a short distance from the entrance to the music festival.

Police said three of the injured were in a serious condition.

Security services have sealed off the city centre and experts are trying to establish the kind of explosives the bomber used.

Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said that the suspected attacker had entered Germany two years ago and had his asylum claim rejected a year ago.

He had been given leave to stay temporarily given the situation in his home country and provided with an apartment in Ansbach, he added.

However, he said the explosives in his backpack would have been sufficient to kill and injure many more people.

BDST: 0939 HRS, July 25, 2016
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