German police said Monday they have captured a man suspected of planning a bomb attack who slipped through their grasp during a raid two days ago.

Police had been looking for 22-year-old Syrian refugee Jaber Albakr since he evaded them during a raid on an apartment in the eastern city of Chemnitz, where they found several hundred grams of explosive.

"Tired but overjoyed: we captured the terror suspect last night in Leipzig," Saxony state police said on Twitter.