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The Latest: German suicide bomber was to be deported

Police officers leave a former hotel where a Syrian man lived before the explosion in Ansbach, Germany, Monday, July 25, 2016. Bavaria's top security official says a man who blew himself up after being turned away from an open-air music festival in the southern German city was a 27-year-old Syrian who had been denied asylum. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

A German official says a Syrian who blew himself up in southern Germany, wounding 12 people, was to be deported to Bulgaria.

An interior ministry spokesman says Syrians can't be deported directly to Syria because of the situation there.

The spokesman, Tobias Plate, said he could not say "at this moment why the deportation" of the 27-year-old failed asylum seeker didn't happen. It was not clear when he was supposed to be deported.

The man blew himself outside a bar in Ansbach after being turned away from an open-air music festival.

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