{"id":182432,"date":"2025-10-01T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T11:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182432\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T11:44:08","slug":"munich-oktoberfest-fairgrounds-closed-after-bomb-threat-and-deadly-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182432\/","title":{"rendered":"Munich Oktoberfest fairgrounds closed after bomb threat and deadly explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/9news.com.au\/germany\" title=\"German\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">German<\/a> police have closed the Oktoberfest fairground following a <a href=\"http:\/\/9news.com.au\/bomb-threat\" title=\"bomb threat\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bomb threat<\/a> from the suspected perpetrator of an <a href=\"http:\/\/9news.com.au\/explosion\" title=\"explosion\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">explosion<\/a> in northern Munich, city officials say.<\/p>\n<p>At least one person&#8217;s death was believed to be connected to the explosion at a residential building early on Wednesday, which Munich police said was deliberately set on fire and part of a domestic dispute.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear whether the deceased was the suspected perpetrator or someone else. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/8ad642c0-927c-40c4-818b-c42145cb6e76.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>Security people stand at the Oktoberfest area that stays closed after a bomb threatening in Munich, Germany, Wednesday, October 1, 2025. (AP Photo\/Matthias Schrader)<\/p>\n<p>Another person, who was not considered to be a danger to the public, remained missing.<\/p>\n<p>Specialised teams were called to the scene to defuse booby traps in the building, police said. Photos from the area also showed a burned-out van.<\/p>\n<p>Officials discovered the bomb threat to Oktoberfest in a letter from the alleged perpetrator. Police searched the fairgrounds for other explosive devices and asked workers to leave the area. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/070028c0-6956-44dc-bc5b-71f1316e8eb5.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>An empty Biergarten at he Oktoberfest area that stays closed after a bomb threatening in Munich, Germany, Wednesday, October 1, 2025. (AP Photo\/Matthias Schrader)<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the festival would be closed at least until 5pm on Wednesday (1am Thursday AEST).<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Oktoberfest began on September 20 and ends on October 5. <\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest beer festival usually attracts up to 6 million visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German police have closed the Oktoberfest fairground following a bomb threat from the suspected perpetrator of an explosion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-182432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}