One particular person was killed and a number of other others injured when a person drove a automotive right into a lunch-hour crowd within the southwestern German metropolis of Mannheim, the police mentioned on Monday.
The police mentioned that the motive force had been arrested, including that they had been investigating whether or not different perpetrators had been concerned.
The authorities requested folks to keep away from town heart on Monday.
There have been a number of latest assaults with automobiles in Germany. Two weeks in the past, a 24-year-old Afghan man who was in search of asylum purposefully drove into a union demonstration in Munich, killing a 2-year-old and her mom and wounding a number of dozen others.
And in December, a Saudi physician who had been residing in Germany for greater than a decade is suspected of getting driven his car into a Christmas market within the central metropolis of Magdeburg, killing six folks and injuring a whole lot of others.
Mannheim, which has a inhabitants of about 320,000, was within the headlines final 12 months when an Afghan citizen residing in Germany stabbed people at a far-right demonstration, killing a police officer who had rushed in to cease the assault.
