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WORLD NEWS Saturday 3 June 2017
Terror warning shuts German rock festival on opening night

the dpa news agency that town of Nuerburg. Over-
there were tips of a possible all, some 85 bands were
terrorist attack and that the scheduled to play on four
Rock am Ring festival was stages with Germany’s To-
shut down on its opening ten Hosen highlighting Sat-
night as a precaution. urday’s list and California’s
The German band System of a Down playing
Rammstein was the Friday Sunday. Following the re-
night headliner, but hadn’t cent attack in Manchester
yet started playing. outside a concert, orga-
Organizer Marek Lieber- nizers had instituted strict
berg told journalists at the security controls includ-
scene that he hoped the ing body searches, while
annual three-day festival backpacks and bags were
would be able to resume banned. Some 1,200 po-
Saturday as planned, but lice were to be on hand for
that it was not yet clear. the event, in uniform and in
The festival grounds were plain clothes. Germany has
clear by 9:30 p.m., about a been on alert since a num-
half hour after people were ber of violent attacks last
told that they were going year, including the truck at-
to have to leave. tack on a Berlin Christmas
“The public reacted fantas- market that left 12 victims
Visitors leave the music festival Rock am Ring outside the western town of Nuerburg, Germany, tically,” Lieberberg said. dead and dozens of others
Friday, June 2, 2017. German authorities have shut down a popular music festival after uncovering It wasn’t immediately clear injured. The attack, carried
a possible terrorist threat.
(Thomas Frey/Dpa via AP) how many fans were in at- out by a young Tunisian
tendance, but some 90,000 man who had been de-
BERLIN (AP) — German from a popular rock music ist threat. Rhineland-Palat- were expected by the end nied asylum in Germany,
authorities shut down and festival Friday night after re- inate government spokes- of the weekend at the was claimed by the Islamic
cleared thousands of fans ceiving a “concrete” terror- man Joachim Winkler told event outside the western State group. q

UK police search car in Manchester attack investigation

By DANICA KIRKA McDonald House, which devastation.” others and kept trying to crush injuries. “I eventually
Associated Press offers accommodation “I knew my daughter was in contact her in the con- met her in a hotel in the
LONDON (AP) — British po- for families with children there somewhere,” he said. fusion. She had suffered early hours of the morning,”
lice investigating the Man- who are being treated in Even so, he tried to help a concussion and some Buckley said. q
chester Arena attack cor- the hospital. A local hos-
doned off an area around pital remained working as
a car significant to the in- usual and even managed
vestigation as they hunted to host a visit by Prince Wil-
Friday for clues about the liam, who met with children
suicide bomber’s move- wounded in the attack.
ments. The second-in-line to the
Officers put a 100-meter throne later visited Man-
(100-yard) cordon in place chester Cathedral, where
around a white Nissan Mi- he praised the grit of the
cra in southern Manches- city and those who re-
ter. They want to piece sponded to the attack.
together Salman Abedi’s “Manchester’s strength
preparations for the attack and togetherness is an ex-
at the Ariana Grande con- ample to the world,” he
cert that killed 22 people wrote in a book of condo-
— and to learn whether lence. “My thoughts are
others helped him. with all those affected.”
“This is potentially a signifi- William also met with po-
cant development in the lice officers, expressing his
investigation,” Detective gratitude for the actions of
Chief Superintendent Russ those first on the scene of
Jackson said. “We are very the blast. Among them was
interested in anything peo- 47-year-old police consta-
ple can tell us about the ble Michael Buckley, who
movements of this car, and treated the wounded even
who was in it, over the past as he frantically searched
months.” for his own child.
Police were also interested Buckley was off duty and
in “who may have had ac- waiting for his 15-year-old
cess to the car or who may daughter Stephanie when
have gone to and from it.” the bomb exploded. He
As a precaution, people found himself in an arena’s
were being evacuated foyer, which he described
from the nearby Ronald as a scene of “absolute