Germany’s famed Oktoberfest shut on Wednesday over a bomb threat, as Munich police investigated a deadly incident elsewhere in Munich, which saw a fire break out at a house rigged with explosives.

Police swept the site of the annual beer festival in downtown Munich after earlier mobilising around the burning residential house in the city’s north which they said had been the site of a deadly “family dispute”.

“Due to an unspecified bomb threat in connection with the incident in northern Munich, the festival grounds on Theresienwiese will remain closed until 5:00 pm,” police said on their WhatsApp channel.

The alarm about the incident in the city’s north was raised before dawn, when blasts were heard inside the burning house and police commandos rushed to the scene, where a van on the str

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