Police are searching for a Syrian asylum seeker after hundreds of grammes of explosives were found in his apartment in the east German town on Chemnitz.<br /><br /> The man, who was born in Damascus, has been named as 22 year old Jabr Albakr who arrived in Germany last year.<br /><br /> Hundreds of police and commandos are scouring the area around the town in search of him.<br /><br /> The tracing for the suspect is running. However, currently we do not know where he is and what he carries with him. Be careful.— Polizei Sachsen (@PolizeiSachsen) October 8, 2016<br /><br /> Three people have so far been arrested, none of them Albakr: two at Chemnitz train station and a third in the town.<br /><br /> Saxony Police spokesman Tom Bernhardt said that they had received a tip off from a domestic security agency about Albakr.<br /><br /> “We received yesterday from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution the tip off that an attack with explosives might be under preparation here,” he said.<br /><br /> But so far police have not said who or what Albakr was trying to target.<br /><br /> Police have evacuated the apartment block and the area around it as they prepare to safely dispose of the explosives.<br /><br /> We found explosives in the affected apartment. It is therefore necessary to carry on further evacuation measures at the area.— Polizei Sachsen (@PolizeiSachsen) October 8, 2016<br /><br /> In July two attacks were carried out in Germany and claimed by Islamic state: an axe attack on a train near Wuerzburg and a suicide bombing which wounded 20 people in Ansbach.<br />
