RTTue, 11 Apr 2017 18:12 UTC
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as it prepared to leave the hotel for their home Champions League quarterfinal game, the team has said. Police have confirmed that
three explosions occurred, but did not say what exactly caused them.
The club said in a twitter post that there was "a bomb blast" close to the team bus, adding that the team players are now "in safety" and "no threat is posed to the stadium," where the quarterfinal was due to take place.
"We can confirm that there were three explosions near the Borussia team bus," police have announced. Large police forces have been deployed to the scene, the law enforcement added.
The wheel rims of the bus were destroyed by the blast and one person was injured, police announced.
The incident occurred around 19:00 (local time) (18:00 GMT) ahead of the team's Champion League quarterfinal game against AS Monaco.
Comment: UpdateApril 12 RT
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17:12)German police have searched the apartments of two suspects with Islamic backgrounds; one has been arrested and officials are attempting to secure an arrest warrant for the second. Letters found at the scene of the blast and
one posted online, referenced Germany's involvement in anti-IS operations:
According to the German newspaper Sueddeutsche, it opens with: "In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful," and also mentions the Berlin attack.
It also references Germany's military involvement in surveillance operations against the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) as the reason for the attack, reports Reuters, citing Sueddeutsche.
It adds that athletes and other celebrities "in Germany and other Kreuzfahrer [Crusader] nations" would be on a "death list of the Islamic state" and this will apply until German Tornadoes are withdrawn and the American airbase is closed at Ramstein.
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Investigators are also examining a second letter claiming responsibility for the attack that was published online on Tuesday evening by a group named Antifa, a so-called "anti-fascist scene," which claimed the attack was a "symbol for the policy of BVB [Borussia Dortmund]," reports Reuters citing Focus magazine, referencing neo-Nazi and racist fans of the club.
Comment: Update
April 12 RT (11:39) and (17:12)
German police have searched the apartments of two suspects with Islamic backgrounds; one has been arrested and officials are attempting to secure an arrest warrant for the second. Letters found at the scene of the blast and one posted online, referenced Germany's involvement in anti-IS operations: