Germany: Suicide bomber pledged allegiance to IS

German authorities say they found a video on the mobile phone of a Syrian suicide bomber who blew himself up in Germany in which he “pledged allegiance” to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Police investigators work at the site of a suicide bombing in Ansbach, southern Germany, on July 25, 2016. (AFP/ dpa / Daniel Karmann)
Police investigators work at the site of a suicide bombing in Ansbach, southern Germany, on July 25, 2016. (AFP/ dpa / Daniel Karmann)

Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann says the 27-year-old man, who has not been named, also “announced an act of revenge against Germans because they were standing in the way of Islam.”

Herrmann says the video strongly suggests the bombing was a “terrorist attack”

— AFP

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