Manhunt under way after man abandons bag of explosives at Berlin train station
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BERLIN – The German police said they are searching for a man who abandoned a bag of explosives at a Berlin train station and ran away after being stopped by federal officers.
“We are investigating all possibilities,” a police spokesperson told Reuters on Oct 31, adding that the authorities had not yet been able to identify the suspect.
The police said they stopped the man in the German capital’s Neukoelln station in the afternoon of Oct 30. He fled the scene and explosives were found in the bag he left behind, according to a post on social media platform X.
The bag was taken to a nearby park where a controlled explosion took place, the post said.
The Bild newspaper reported that the bag had contained triacetone triperoxide, an unstable white explosive powder known as TATP and often used in extremist attacks on the public.
The police could neither confirm nor deny the report on the type of explosive. REUTERS
