{"id":29387,"date":"2016-10-13T04:23:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T04:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/germany-bomb-plot-suspect-found-dead-in-leipzig\/"},"modified":"2016-10-13T04:23:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T04:23:26","slug":"germany-bomb-plot-suspect-found-dead-in-leipzig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/germany-bomb-plot-suspect-found-dead-in-leipzig\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: Bomb plot suspect found dead in Leipzig cell"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Syrian refugee arrested for allegedly planning a major airport attack commits suicide in Leipzig prison cell.}<\/p>\n

A Syrian man suspected of planning a bomb attack on a German airport was found dead in a prison cell on Wednesday after reportedly killing himself. <\/p>\n

Jaber al-Bakr, 22, was arrested earlier this week after a two-day manhunt following the discovery of explosives and other bomb-making equipment at his flat in the nearby city of Chemnitz. <\/p>\n

Justice Ministry spokesman Joerg Herold told the Associated Press news agency that Bakr killed himself sometime in the evening, but the incident was still being investigated. <\/p>\n

Investigators said Bakr, who arrived in Germany last year, had links to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS).<\/p>\n

“On the evening of October 12, 2016, Jaber al-Bakr, who was suspected of planning a serious attack, took his life in the detention centre at Leipzig correctional hospital,” the ministry said in a statement on its website.<\/p>\n

It said it would give more details at a news conference in Dresden on Thursday at 0900GMT.<\/p>\n

Spiegel Online reported that Bakr had been under round-the-clock surveillance in police custody in Leipzig because he was on hunger strike and an acute suicide risk.<\/p>\n

German news agency DPA reported that Bakr hanged himself in his cell.<\/p>\n

Bakr was arrested on Monday after three Syrian refugees whom he befriended tied up the suspect in their flat in Leipzig and alerted police after realising he was a wanted man.<\/p>\n

However, sources told DPA that during police interrogations Bakr had accused the refugees of having known in advance about the planned attack. <\/p>\n

Prosecutors leading the investigation refused to confirm that information, or say whether the refugees were being treated as suspects or witnesses.<\/p>\n

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