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Germany: Police hunt refugee camp attackers
‘It was just luck’ that the grenade didn’t explode

GERMAN police were hunting suspects following a hand grenade attack on refugee accommodation yesterday.

Tuttlingen police spokesman Thomas Kalmbach said “it was just luck” the device did not explode and nobody was harmed.

The incident took place at about 1.15am in the Black Forest town of Villingen-Schwenningen in southern Baden-Wurttemberg state.

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