A view of the damage after an explosion near the Vanity Club in central Cologne, Germany, September 16, 2024. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen
COLOGNE (Reuters) -German police and prosecutors are investigating an explosion that occurred in central Cologne early Monday, a police spokesperson said, adding that there was no indication of a terrorist motive for the crime.
A bystander suffered a mild injury and was brought to hospital after the explosion damaged commercial property on the Hohenzollernring ring road, the spokesperson said.
Damage was visible outside a nightclub called Vanity in the western city.
The spokesperson declined to confirm a link to a series of explosions across the state of North-Rhine Westphalia in recent months that have been attributed to an organised crime gang, but said that all possibilities were being investigated.
(Reporting by Thilo Schmuelgen; Writing by Friederike Heine; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Rachel More)
