Explosion near southern Germany train station injures 2

Explosion near southern Germany train station injures 2

Investigation underway after multiple unidentified objects discovered in the area

An explosion near a German train station followed by the discovery of a suspicious object caused police to temporarily close the transport hub in the southern city of Augsburg on Wednesday morning.

Later in the morning, police said the suspicious object had been identified as harmless and that the train station was reopened again at 10 a.m. and trains starting running again.

"We can give the all-clear — the object we found in front of the main train station was harmless, and we have reopened the station," police spokesperson Timo Küfner told The Associated Press.

Küfner said trains were running again after the incident.

An unidentified object exploded in a passageway near the station at around 3:15 a.m. local time, according to officials, causing minor injuries to two people. The people injured were a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man, both of whom are Ukrainian citizens, the German news agency dpa reported.

Later, another second suspicious object that did not explode was discovered right at the main train station, Küfner said, leading to the shutdown of the train station at 8:30 a.m.

Explosives experts investigating

Explosives experts from the Bavarian state criminal police office were investigating at the scene.

"It's still too early to say anything about a possible motive for the overnight explosion, but we are investigating," said Küfner.

Road traffic and public transportation in the vicinity of the station were disrupted in the early morning hours.

News outlet Bild reported that early in the morning, a hand grenade detonated in front of a jewelry store and that the train station itself was apparently not the target.

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Augsburg is a city of 308,000 residents in Bavaria, about 78 kilometres northwest of Munich.

It comes as the German government on Tuesday blamed Russia for an attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month using a drone laden with explosives. Germany announced that it would shut down a Russian consulate, among other measures against Moscow.

The drone was found near a Ukrainian plane on the evening of Aug. 4 and the device was defused. German officials said at the time that the incident posed a new level of danger.

Moscow has been widely accused by Western officials of running a campaign of sabotage and disruption across Europe with the aim of undermining support for Ukraine and destabilizing European nations.