BundesligaPhoto: DPAAFP/The Local · 23 Aug 2016, 14:21Published: 23 Aug 2016 14:21 GMT+02:00Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich have tightened security measures at their stadium, banning spectators from carrying big bags and bottles, ahead of Friday's home match - the first of the new German league season. A few days after the Paris attacks that left 130 people dead, a friendly between Germany and the Netherlands in Hanover was scrapped at the last minute over a terror threat. Bavaria, the southern state of which Munich is the capital, has also been shaken by three bloody attacks which took place in the space of a week the is summer. Story continues below…The worst of them took place in the north of Munich when a teenager killed nine people in and around a shopping mall using a handgun. The two other incidents, an a xe attack on a train and a bomb attack, both in northern Bavaria, have been linked to terror group Isis.

Source: The Local August 23, 2016 12:22 UTC