Man flees police check in Berlin and leaves bag with explosive material

Police opportunity a man has fled a constabulary cheque astatine a commuter train position successful Berlin and near down a container containing explosive material

BERLIN -- A man fled a constabulary cheque astatine a commuter train position successful Berlin connected Wednesday and near down a container containing explosive material, constabulary said.

Officers wanted to cheque nan man astatine nan Neukoelln position successful nan German superior Wednesday afternoon, constabulary said connected societal level X, without specifying why.

The explosive worldly was taken to a adjacent park, wherever experts detonated it connected Wednesday evening.

Police were still looking for nan man. They said nan circumstances down nan incident were unclear and that they were investigating each possibilities, but truthful acold had nary indications that a planned onslaught was foiled, German news agency dpa reported.