The Oktoberfest fairgrounds have been closed for several hours as police conducted a security sweep of the famed beer festival due to a bomb threat by a suspect linked to an explosion across town in northern Munich.

Police in Bavaria, the state where Munich is located, said the suspect was believed to be a 57-year-old German citizen who, according to preliminary findings, had died by taking his own life near a lake in northern Munich.

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.

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