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| Teen 'Salafists' arrested over bomb attack on Sikh temple |
| 2016-04-23 |
[THELOCAL.DE] Police said on Thursday that two teenagers they have incarceratedBook 'im, Mahmoud! in connection with a kaboom on a Sikh temple in the western German city of Essen are linked to the Islamic fundamentalist scene there. Officers received large numbers of tip-offs during their investigation that allowed them to identify the two 16-year-olds believed to behind the attack, the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) reported. "The accused have clear links to the terrorist scene," Essen police chief Frank Richter told journalists at a presser, saying that both teenagers had made partial confessions. Richter added that there was no evidence so far of a link to the Isis terrorist group, but said police expect to make further arrests in the coming days. ARD public television reported that the two youths arrested were well-known to the police for their links to the Salafist scene in the densely populated Rhine-Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia, something Richter refused to confirm at the presser. Three hurt in bomb kaboom The bomb went kaboom!at a temple belonging to the Sikh Gurdwara Nanaksar congregation on Saturday at around 7 pm, wounding three people ‐ one of them, a Sikh priest, seriously. Hundreds of worshippers regularly visit the temple at weekends to pray and meet other members of the community, and a wedding with dozens of guests had taken place earlier that same day. Fortunately, only a few people were in the hall at the time of the kaboom. Windowpanes shattered with the force of the blast and the door was ripped from its hinges, while parts of the slate facade were also torn away. An audio recording from the moment of the crash features a loud kaboom and then shouts from the people gathered inside. |
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