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Augsburg station closed after blast amid Germany Russia tensions
Police said two people were hurt with minor blast-related acoustic trauma and a second suspicious object was found nearby but did not detonate.
A train station in Augsburg, southern Germany, was fully shut down Wednesday morning after an explosion near the city’s main station, police said. Authorities also found a second suspicious object close by that did not detonate, and explosives specialists were sent to examine it.
Police said the blast occurred at about 3:15am local time. Two people suffered minor injuries described as blast-related acoustic trauma, and nearby windows were shattered by the force.
Services at the station building and platforms were closed, with train services diverted and road and public transport disruptions reported in the surrounding area. Augsburg has a population of around 308,000 and sits about 48 miles northwest of Munich, and investigators had not yet said what caused the blast or whether it was linked to other incidents as of Wednesday morning.
The Augsburg incident follows Germany’s formal attribution of a drone attack to Russia a day earlier. According to Insurance Business, the interior minister blamed Russia for an attempted drone attack on Leipzig airport last month that involved a quadcopter carrying roughly 800 grams of PETN, and Germany announced it would close the Russian consulate-general in Bonn on September 18 and end a Russia House contract.