At least 20 people including children have been injured after a car drove into a group of people in central Munich, authorities said.
It was not immediately clear whether the people were hit deliberately in the incident, which took place at a square near downtown Munich around 10.30 am on Thursday. Police said on social platform X, formerly Twitter, that the driver was “secured” at the scene and no longer poses any danger.
A damaged Mini could be seen at the scene. The fire service said at least 20 people were injured, some of them seriously, German news agency dpa reported.
The Premier of Bavaria has said the incident is a ‘suspected attack’.
Mayor Dieter Reiter said he was “deeply shocked” by the incident. He said that children were among those injured.
A demonstration by the service workers’ union ver.di was taking place at the time of the incident. It was not immediately clear whether demonstrators were among the injured.
The Bavarian capital will see heavy security in the coming days because the three-day Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of international foreign and security policy officials, opens on Friday.
According to the Mirror, an Afghan national is believed to have been responsible for a horrifying car crash in Munich this morning that critically injured two children and injured dozens more.
A white Mini Cooper ploughed into a group of union demonstrators in the Bavarian city earlier this morning in a shock collision that injured 27 people, two of whom were “very seriously injured”. A 24-year-old from Afghanistan was at the wheel of the car when the crash, which also left a child’s life in danger, took place, German media have reported
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