BERLIN (AP) – German prosecutors say that a pipe bomb, an assault rifle, ammunition and chemicals that could be used to make explosives were found in an anti-terror raid near Frankfurt.
Frankfurt’s deputy chief prosecutor Stefan Rojczyk told The Associated Press on Thursday that the raid in the town of Oberursel occurred overnight after security officials learned that large amounts of a chemical that can be used to make a bomb had been purchased at a hardware store.
Rojczyk says two people were detained, one of whom was a chemistry student.
He says authorities were still trying to determine whether those detained were planning to carry out an attack.