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Germany probes security failures 50 years after Munich Olympics massacre

Munich, 5 September 1972, a Palestinian militant on the balcony of the room where several members of the Israeli Olympic squad were being held hostage. © AFP

Germany has appointed an international commission to investigate the security failings that allowed the deadly attack on the Israeli team at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

The independent investigation comes as part of an agreement reached last year with victims' families, five decades after the assault in which 11 Israelis lost their lives.

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