Ansbach Muslim blew himself up before killing 1, injuring 12 others

The suicide bomber who injured 12 people when he blew himself up at a German music festival was a Syrian Muslin man who was denied asylum in the country, officials have revealed.

The 27-year-old bomber is said to have detonated the explosive device near a music festival in Ansbach, near Nuremberg.

He is thought to have been turned away from the open-air event filled with 2,500 people, which may have been his intended target.

The blast tore through the busy area at around 10pm local time on Sunday. It comes as Germany remains on high alert in the wake of three other violent attacks across the country in just one week.

Video footage which has emerged from the scene this evening shows scores of people fleeing the area as heavily armed police cordoned off the city centre