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Germany Put on Edge After Unprecedented String of Attacks
- Suicide bomber injures 12 at music festival in Bavaria
- Merkel’s goverment under pressure to stop the violence
A woman places a candle at a memorial in front of the Olympia Einkaufszentrum shopping center in Munich, on July 24, 2016.
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Germany was put on edge after an unprecedented series of four attacks in the last week left many dead and wounded, placing pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to stem the violence.
The latest incident occurred late Sunday at a music festival in the Bavarian town of Ansbach, near Nuremberg, when a 27-year-old man identified as a Syrian refugee blew himself up near the entrance to the event, injuring 12 others.