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Munich: Merkel vows 'everything possible' for security

Attacks involved "places where any of us could have been"

23 July, 15:10

(ANSA-AP) - TRIESTE - Chancellor Angela Merkel says that the country's security servi ces will "do everything possible to protect the security and fr eedom of all people in Germany" in the wake of two attacks in less than a week.

Merkel told reporters in Berlin on Saturday that an attack on a train on Monday night and Friday night's deadly rampage in Munich had involved "places where any of us could have been" and have left Germans wondering "where is safe?" Combined with the deadly attack in the French city of Nice, she said people are growing increasingly concerned.

"Such an evening and such a night is difficult to bear," she sa id of the Munich attack. "And it's even more difficult to bear because we have had so much terrible news in so few days." (ANSA-AP).

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