An explosion near a German train station and the discovery of a suspicious object led police to temporarily close the transport hub in the southern city of Augsburg. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Associated Press.
At around 3:15 a.m., an unidentified object exploded in a passageway near the station, causing minor injuries to two people. The injured were a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man, both Ukrainian citizens, according to German news agency dpa.
Later, at 8:30 a.m., a second suspicious object that did not explode was discovered right at the main train station, leading to the shutdown of the station. According to police spokesperson Timo Küfner, the suspicious object was identified as harmless, and the station was reopened at 10 a.m., with trains running again.
"We can give the all-clear — the object we found in front of the main train station was harmless, and we have reopened the station," Küfner told The Associated Press. "The trains are running again, too."
Explosives experts from the Bavarian state criminal police office were investigating at the scene. "It's still too early to say anything about a possible motive for the overnight explosion, but we are investigating," said Küfner.
Road traffic and public transportation in the vicinity of the station were disrupted in the early morning hours but later traffic was running normally again. Augsburg is a city of 308,000 residents in Bavaria, about 78 kilometers (48 miles) northwest of Munich.