Dundorf

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LUFTWAFFE JOINS IN SEARCH FOR TERRORISTS
 
ODERVELD – LEUCHTFEUER
 
Karlottenberg Schloss, January 27, 5737 (backdated): Chancellor Hermann Felder met with President Friedrich von Schirach and then addressed members of the press on the steps being taken by government security forces to apprehend the perpetrators of the car bombing in Haldorstrase near the Dorvish Embassy:
 

We really have little to add to the briefing earlier given by Interior Minister Bernard Glueck who is coordinating the investigation and security measures. The border has been closed by our border guards at the border crossing points while their helicopters patrol the borders more generally.
 
The President and I want to commend the swift and effective response of police and medical rescue personnel.
 
I can add that Defence Minister Karl-Hermann Bodenscchatz has informed me that our Soteria Air Defense System has accounted for all air traffic entering and leaving the Bundesrepublik by radar and satellite since the bombing to insure no unauthorized or unverified aircraft perpetrates an escape of the terrorists.
 
As Interior Minister Glueck said all indications are this was a terrorist attack, the first since the Restoration of the Republic.  Whether the dead and wounded Dundorfische and Alorian citizens were the true targets we do not as yet know.
 
Interior Minister Glueck has increased border and airport and railway security and we have placed the capital under curfew to facilitate examination of road traffic conducted by the police.  As indicated, every indication is this an organized terrorist attack.  On the other hand nothing discovered by the BND or police investigators indicates a state player is involved.
 
We do have leads which we are following.

Asked by ODERVELD – LEUCHTFEUER if the type of bomb has been determined,
Felder responded:
 

This is something we are not going to discuss at this time.  Understand what you are asking -was a bomb perpetrator of necessity  present at detonation.
 
More information will be made public as the investigation and search continues.

Karlottenberg Schloss