Chemnitz: German police hunt Syrian man over suspected bomb plot.

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Saxony Police released images of a man identified as Syrian-born Jaber Albakr, in connection 

with the operation in Chemnitz.

 "Police in Germany are hunting a 22-year-old Syrian man in connection with a suspected planned

 bomb attack," Saxony Police said.

He was named by police as Jaber Albakr. He was born Jan. 10, 1994 and is from the Damascus countryside area, police said.

  

Police failed to find the suspect in a raid on an apartment.

The details emerged during a large-scale police operation in the city of Chemnitz.

Two people have been arrested at the city's train station, police said, and their luggage was being 

searched. The station has been temporarily cordoned off, police said. Another person was arrested

 in the city center. Police believe they were in contact with the suspect.

Officers found traces of explosives in their search of an apartment in the city's Fritz-Heckert district,

 Saxony Police spokesman Tom Bernhardt explained.

Bernhardt said it was not known at this point whether or not the suspect was armed or in possession

 of explosives.

In a Facebook statement, Bernhardt later said police found a highly explosive mix of substances 

at the apartment. The substances can't be transported easily and police were trying to dispose 

of them at a safe place. 

  

Police vehicles are lined up in front of an apartment building Saturday in Chemnitz.

The tip about the apartment came from the German interior intelligence services, he said. Police

carried out a controlled explosion to gain access to the apartment.

A police media release said Albakr was currently wearing a black hooded sweatshirt.

In a Facebook live posted by the police, Bernhardt said that the suspect could be considered

 dangerous.

Homes cordoned off

The operation -- which saw large areas of the city cordoned off -- is now coming to an end, 

the spokesman told CNN. Police are trying to clear the area soon so that residents can return 

to their homes.

People were warned to stay indoors while the police raid was under way.

They were also urged via Twitter not to post photographs or video to social media while the 

operation was ongoing.

Chemnitz is only about 40 miles from the city of Dresden, where security was stepped up last month following two bomb attacks, one on a mosque and another on a conference center.

Two homemade devices were involved in those attacks, police said. No one was injured.

Once known as Karl-Marx-Stadt.

 

Chemnitz, a city of more than 200,000 people, is in Germany's east, lying to the south of Berlin 

 and Leipzig, not far from the border with the Czech Republic.

From 1953 to 1990, as part of the former East Germany, the city was known as Karl-Marx-Stadt. 

It still features a 7-meter high bust of the philosopher Karl Marx.

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