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The Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich was closed on Wednesday after police said they found explosives in a residential building in the city that caught fire and killed at least one person.
Special forces were investigating an area in the north of Munich earlier in the day, where the Bild newspaper and multiple other reports said shots and expl
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