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Three explosions have hit a bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund football team to their home UEFA Champions League quarter-final match against AS Monaco, the Champions League clash with Monaco is cancelled.
The team had left its hotel about 7 p.m. local time.
Between 40 and 50 people, including the trainer and medical support staff, were on the bus when three explosions were heard. The cause was unknown.
The initial report was of one blast, but police later said there were three.
The location of the blast was roughly 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Westfalenstadion.
The team tweeted that the other players were safe and there was no danger in or around the stadium and recommended that fans stay in the stadium and remain calm to allow an "orderly departure, where around 80,000 people would have been expected for the game.
The German club thanked French Monaco supporters for their "patience and understanding" and for chanting "Dortmund! Dortmund!" when the reason for the postponement was announced in the Westfalenstadion, also known as Signal Iduna Park.
Borussia Dortmund's footballer Marc Bartra, has suffered a sprain fracture and foreign body injuries on the right wrist during the explosion and he had an emergency surgery made upon him.
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