Ebun Francis with agency report || The police in Germany say they have arrested a suspect with “Islamist links” connected the bomb blast that damaged the bus of the Borussia Dortmund football team on Tuesday evening.
A spokeswoman for Germany’s federal state prosecutor in Karlsruhe, Frauke Koehler, said: “Two suspects from the Islamist spectrum have become the focus of our investigation. Both of their apartments were searched, and one of the two has been detained.”
Ms Koehler said three letters containing the same text found near the site of the blasts indicated that the attacker had links to so-called Islamic State.
She said: “Among other things they demand the withdrawal of [German] tornado fighter jets from Syria and, I quote, the closure of Rammstein airbase.”
Two letters claiming responsibility for the attack were being investigated, they said.
Prosecutors are treating the blasts as a terror attack but say the precise motive is unclear at presently.
