The Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, Germany, was closed on Wednesday (October 1) after police discovered explosives in a residential building in the city that caught fire and caused at least one fatality.
City officials said there had been a b*mb threat issued by the suspected perpetrator of the explosion earlier in the day.
According to Munich police, the explosion was part of a domestic dispute, and the residential building where the incident took place had been “deliberately set on fire.”