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Europe’s biggest beer festival, the world-famous Oktoberfest, has been dramatically closed in a major security scare after a bomb threat was linked to a deadly explosion at a house in Munich

Germany's famed Oktoberfest was briefly shut Wednesday after threats against it by a man who appeared to have torched his parents' home with family inside, and was later found with an explosives-laden backpack.

According to Munich police, the threat was discovered in a letter believed to have been written by the suspected perpetrator of the blast.

The Oktoberfest, the world's biggest folk festival, will remain shut until 5 pm in connection with the explosion.

German police had closed the Oktoberfest fairgrounds on Wednesday morning due to a bomb threat linked to a fire at a house in northern Munich.

Police say the 57-year-old suspect was carrying a backpack containing an explosive device that needed to be defused

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