German police hunt Syrian suspected of attack plot

German police named a 22-year-old Syrian today as the target of a manhunt in the eastern town of Chemnitz over a suspected bomb plot.

Police in the state of Saxony issued a search warrant for Jaber Albakr, saying he was born in Syria in January 1994.

Albakr is wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and was "suspected of preparing a bomb attack.