The crowd at Oktoberfest in Munich, southern Germany on September 21, 2025 -- days before the world's biggest beer festival was temporarily closed due to a bomb threat

The crowd at Oktoberfest in Munich, southern Germany on September 21, 2025 -- days before the world's biggest beer festival was temporarily closed due to a bomb threat

 Michaela STACHE

Germany's Oktoberfest was temporarily closed by a bomb threat Wednesday, organisers said, as police investigated a house in Munich that had been rigged with explosives then set alight, leaving one man dead.

Police deployed a bomb squad along with firefighters to the residential house in Lerchenau district of the city early in the morning, as a column of smoke rose in the sky.

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