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Hand grenade against refugee shelter found unexploded in southern Germany

Xinhua, January 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

A hand grenade was found unexploded early Friday morning on the open ground of a refugee shelter in southern Germany.

According to local police office, the hand grenade was found in the Villingen-Schwenningen, State of Baden-Wurttemberg, and the explosive device was then successfully destroyed with nobody harmed.

Regional police spokesman Thomas Kalmbach said, an unidentified person had thrown the device over the fence toward the refugee dwelling with current capacity of 170 refugees around 1:00 a.m., with the pin already pulled but the hand grenade failing to go off.

Police had evacuated 20 residents nearby, before a bomb squad destroyed the device in a controlled explosion on the scene at about 5:00 a.m.

The special commission "Container" had been founded as well as taken over the investigation, with investigators being searching surroundings for evidences, however, it's unclear whether the criminal suspect had background of right-wing extremism, according to the media report.

Over 1,000 attacks against refugee shelters occurred in Germany last year, nearly five times the amount of similar incidents in 2014, with more than 900 attacks relating to right-wing extremism, according to the data released by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) on Thursday. Endit