'Islamist' suspect is arrested over Borussia Dortmund coach bombing after police find THREE letters claiming attack was carried out in the name of Islam

BREAKING NEWS: 'Islamist' suspect is arrested over Borussia Dortmund coach bombing after police find THREE letters claiming attack was carried out in the name of Islam

Police arrested one 'Islamist' in connection with last night's attack during raids on Wednesday morning
Another man 'from the Islamist spectrum' is still on the run after officers failed to find him at his property
Investigators have found three letters claiming responsibility for the attack, all referencing radical Islam
One letter began 'Allah the most merciful' and made demands for German aircraft to leave Syria
Police have discounted a letter from hardcore left-wing group Antifa claiming responsibility as fake
Explosions hit Dortmund's bus as it was leaving the team's hotel, L'Arrivee, ahead of their clash with Monaco

An 'Islamist' suspect has been arrested in connection with the pipe bomb attack on Borussia Dortmund's team bus as authorities say they are treating it as a 'terrorist attack'.

German police searched properties belonging to 'two suspects from the Islamist spectrum' on Wednesday and made one arrest, meaning another man is still on the loose.

Frauke Koehler, a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors, revealed the explosive devices used in the attack contained metal pins, one of which was found buried in a headrest on the vehicle.

Ms Koehler said it was lucky 'that nothing worse happened', adding that investigators are still working to determine how the devices were detonated and what substance was used.

Elsewhere police said three letters claiming responsibility for the attack have been found, all of them saying that it was carried out in the name of Islam.

Another letter claiming to be from the far-left group Antifa had been discounted as a fraud.


At least one of the notes made reference to the Berlin Christmas market attack, in which an ISIS fanatic drove a stolen truck into shoppers, killing 12.

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Police in Germany have arrested an 'Islamist' suspect over last night's pipe bomb attack on the Bourissa Dortmund team bus, and say they are investigating another suspect 'from the Islamist spectrum'

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The Borussia Dortmund team bus was last night hit by three explosions while carrying the squad to their Champions League quarter-final against Monaco, with defender Marc Bartra taken to hospital with a broken bone in his wrist

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Prosecutors say the bombs were filled with metal pins, one of which was found embedded in a headrest on the bus, saying it was lucky 'that nothing worse happened'





Police are still investigating how the devices, believed to have been hidden in this hedge, were detonated and what kind of explosives were used





Police also announced that three notes claiming responsibility for the attack have now been found, all of which say it was carried out in the name of Islam



The game between Borussia Dortmund and Monaco at Signal Iduna Park was called off after last night's attack

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According to Der Spiegel, that letter was written in German starts with the phrase 'In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful' and ends with two demands.

First, 'tornadoes', a reference to German reconnaissance planes, must be withdrawn from Syria, and second the US base in Ramstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, should be closed.

Controversial drone operations against terror targets in the Middle East are controlled from the base.

The letter also claims that German combat aircraft are involved in killing Muslims in the 'Islamic State', adding that athletes and other celebrities 'in Germany and other Kreuzfahrer (crusader) nations' are now on a 'death list'.




Terrified stars dived for cover as three blasts sent shards of glass flying through their coach while defender Marc Bartra broke a bone in his right wrist and later needed surgery to remove 'foreign objects' from his body.

The coach had just left the club hotel ahead of their Champions League quarter-final clash with Monaco when the bombs were detonated in what is believed to have been a targeted attack.

A policeman escorting the coach to the match on a motorcycle was also injured when the bombs went off in bushes nearby, having apparently been detonated with a mobile phone or garage door opener. The officer suffered hearing damage and shock and was unable to report for duty today.

German chancellor Angela Merkel said this morning she was 'horrified' by the 'repugnant' attack.

Dortmund has been a hotbed of radical Islam in recent years - Berlin Christmas market truck bomber Anis Amri attended a mosque there.











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