German police said they detained two people on Saturday in connection with a hunt for a Syrian-born man suspected of planning a bomb attack, adding that they had found explosives in an apartment they raided earlier.
The police did not say if the two people detained included Jaber Albakr, 22, the man suspected of planning the attack.
"Highly charged explosives were found in the apartment concerned in Chemnitz," Saxony police said on Twitter, adding that they needed to evacuate more people from the residential area of the eastern city as a precaution.