Police in Germany say the search is ongoing but that the identity of the suspect and circumstances behind the incident are unknown.
German police are searching for a man who abandoned a bag of explosives at a train station in Berlin and fled after being stopped by officers.
Police said they had attempted to stop the man for a routine ID check at the Neukölln station in the German capital on Wednesday afternoon. He ran away and explosives were found in the backpack he left behind, Berlin’s police force said in a post on X.
The explosive material was taken to a nearby park, where experts detonated it on Wednesday evening, according to the post.
They detonated it?
I mean, I’m no expert but… Isn’t the goal to diffuse the bomb/make it useless?
Maybe they wanted to have a little fun 💣
According to German news it was TATP which is extremely unstable so they detonated it in a safe place nearby to minimize the risk for everyone.
It’s safer to detonate an unknown device. You don’t know how stable it is or how to defuse it at all.
Germany is pretty good at defusing WWII bombs that are found all year around, but even with them it’s sometimes safer to detonate them.
This isn’t a movie where someone tries to defuse it against a timer.
Not worth the risk to the bomb squad, vs just blow it up.