Germany’s Oktoberfest was shut down for several hours on Wednesday as police searched the area of the festival grounds due to a bomb threat. According to reports, the bomb threat was related to a suspect linked to an explosion in another part of Munich. In preliminary findings, police said the suspect died by suicide. Munich Oktoberfest fairgrounds closed after bomb threat and deadly explosion https://t.co/lUisAzsHHB pic.twitter.com/br0vnIT9er — New York Post (@nypost) October 1, 2025 More from the Associated Press: The Oktoberfest grounds were reopened after police determined that the bomb threat linked to the suspect “was not confirmed,” Munich police said on the X platform. The suspect, who had been living in the town of Starnberg south of the city, had been carrying a backpack containing an explosive device, a Bavaria police statement said earlier. City police said the blast before dawn in northern Munich at a residential building, which had been deliberately set on fire, appeared connected to a domestic dispute. The Bavarian interior ministry described it as a dispute over paternity, German news agency dpa reported. During the initial investigation, a letter written by the suspect and found near the crime scene contained a “non-specific” threat of explosives related to Oktoberfest, Bavaria police said. Daily Mail reports that an injured individual found near the building where the explosion occurred later passed away. The suspect allegedly killed his 90-year-old father, injured his mother, and injured a 21-year-old woman at the property, the outlet reports. At least one person’s death was believed to be connected to the explosion at a residential building, which Munich police said was deliberately set on fire. According to BILD, a man presumably rigged his parents' house with explosives, set it on fire, and then took his own life.… pic.twitter.com/qfophWslpW — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 1, 2025 Daily Mail noted: Local media reported that a man was suspected of having caused the explosion and fire in his parents’ house before killing himself, and that shots had been fired in the incident, but police did not confirm this. The perpetrator allegedly killed himself at Lercheanauer Lake, which is a five-minute drive from the home. According to the newspaper Welt, responders discovered hand grenades with tripwires at the house. Several booby traps were also found. One local resident told Die Welt that he ‘woke up around 5am because there were a few loud bangs. I got up, looked, and then there was a fire’. Another reported a noxious cloud of smoke, along with the smell of fire. A 200m evacuation zone around the explosion’s epicentre was triggered, forcing local residents to leave the area. Additional coverage below: