Germany requests arrest warrant for Iraqi suspect in soccer team bus blast

BERLIN — German prosecutors requested an arrest warrant Thursday for a 26-year-old Iraqi national with suspected links to the Islamic State group who is being held in connection with a bomb attack on a popular soccer team.

The statement said there was no direct proof yet that he was involved in Tuesday’s attack on the bus of the Borussia Dortmund team that left one player injured, but there is evidence he was the leader of a 10-man Islamic State unit in Iraq involved in killings, kidnapping and blackmail.

He left Iraq in March 2015 for Turkey before heading on to Germany in early 2016 and has maintained his contacts with the extremist Islamic State group, the statement continued.

Three explosions went off around 7 p.m. near the bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund players as it was on its way to a home match against AS Monaco in the Champions League.

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