A Syrian man whose request for asylum in Germany had been turned down set off an explosive near an open-air music festival in the city of Ansbach, killing himself and injuring a dozen other people.

This happened after 10:00 O'Clock at night, local time, outside the Eugens Weinstube bar in the center of Ansbach, a town with a population of 40,000 and is home to a US military base.  Three of the injured are in a critical condition.  Cops have the center of town sealed off for the investigation.

The bloodshed in Ansbach is the latest event in a rough few days for Germany.  On 18 July, police shot and killed an Afghanistani teen who attacked train passengers with an axe in Wuerzburg;  On 22 July, a troubled teenager with an illegal gun killed eight people outside a mall in Munich;  on Sunday, a Syrian man wielding a machete hacked and killed a polish woman in in the town of Reutlingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg;  And now a bombing.  Three of the four violent events involved perpetrators originally from other countries, leading to more friction over the immigration issue.