Germany’s famed Oktoberfest was briefly shut Wednesday after threats against it by a man who appeared to have torched his parents’ home with family inside, and was later found with an explosives-laden backpack.

Police said the 57-year-old man had wounded his mother and daughter, booby-trapped and set ablaze their home, and then killed himself at a nearby lake in the city’s leafy northern Lerchenau district.

They said he was still alive when found but badly wounded, and later died.

Police also said he was “carrying a backpack, which, according to current information, contains an explosive device that must now be deactivated”.

A written threat from the suspect against Oktoberfest was also found, leading Munich officials to temporarily shutter and sweep the site of the globally renowned f

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