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Vsitors walk past the Reichstag building, host of the German federal parliament, in Berlin on Jan. 29, 2013.MICHAEL SOHN/The Associated Press

Berlin police say an unidentified person threw a Molotov cocktail onto the steps of the capital's landmark Reichstag parliament building but failed to start a blaze.

The person threw the bottle full of a flammable liquid at a side entrance of the building early Monday morning, police said.

They say the liquid ignited for a short time and then sputtered out, and the attacker fled on foot. Nobody was injured.

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