Berlin – A driver led a car to a group of people in the Munich center on Thursday, injuring 30 people, including children, the authorities announced. The police said that at least 30 people had been injured and that the suspect would be a 24 -year -old Afghan asylum seeker. The officials said earlier than at least two of the injured were in serious condition.
Bavarian governor Markus Söder said that the incident, which had taken place on a square near Munich city center around 10:30 am, was “suspected of being an attack”.
The police said on the social platform X that the driver had been “secured” on the scene and no longer posed danger. A damaged mini Cooper could be seen on the scene, as well as debris, including shoes. A man was seen in detention. Munich police said the suspect appear Before a judge on Friday.
The FBI helps the German police in investigation.
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Mayor Dieter Reiter said he was “deeply shocked” by the incident. He said the children were among the injured.
A demonstration of the workers’ union of the Ver.DI services took place at the time of the incident. It was not immediately clear if the demonstrators were part of the injured.
The Bavarian capital will see strong security in the coming days because the Munich security conference by three days, an annual rally of international officials of foreign and security policies, opens on Friday. US vice-president JD Vance should attend the conference, where he must meet the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the middle of the large-scale scale in progress Russian invasion of his country.
The incident occurs less than two months after a man struck a truck through a crowd in a Christmas market in the east of the city of Magdeburg, kill five people And hurt more than 200 others. The German government said the tragedy would have been difficult to prevent and that the suspect seemed to be mentally disturbed.
Prosecutors of the city of Dresden in eastern Germany said that a suspect was held in a plot to attack a refuge for asylum seekers. They said they had “received an anonymous warning that a 21 -year -old German man from the Meissen region had armed himself with explosives to carry out an attack on a refuge for asylum seekers in Senftenberg,” reported the AFP news agency.
