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Gets the imagePolice said a 24-year-old Afghan seeking asylum who took a car in a crowd in the German city of Munich, suffering at least 30 people.
Officers said they viewed the incident as a suspect attack.
That’s what we know about the attack so far.
What happened?
Munich police said the car, the mini -kuper, accelerated and plowed at the back of the Verdi union rally during the strike of the public sector workers. It happened in the city center of Munich at the junction of Carlostros and Sadlesters At about 10:30 local time (11:30 GMT).
Staff of daytime centers, hospitals, sanitation and public pools joined the strike, calling for higher payment and longer holidays.
At the time of the collision, about 1500 people went to the final place of the rally at a short distance.
One shot was released in a vehicle by police before the driver was detained at the scene.
The emergency services were in the area of the rally that allowed the suspected rapid arrest and the victims to be treated, police said.
It is unclear whether the suspect was injured.
A police press secretary told local public television companies that the police were checking whether there was a link between the demonstration and the incident.
The accident occurred a few hours before the Vice President of the United States and the Ukrainian president had to arrive in the city at the Munich Security Conference – but the police say they do not believe it is due.
How many injuries were injured?
At least 30 people were injured, including two, German police said on Thursday.
The local fire service said some of them suffered “life -threatening”.
Mayor Munich Dieter said the children were among the victims.
According to Bavarian media, the victims were treated in several hospitals around Munich, including the Red Cross Children’s Hospital and the Munich Clinic.
Some of the victims included employees of the city administration of Munich, said Deputy Mayor Munich Dominic Krause.
Several participants of the union rally brought their children with them, “which makes this act even more horrifying,” Krauz said.
Who is the suspect?
Suspect, Farhad H, whom we do not fully call because of the German privacy rules, -24-year-old asylum from Afghanistan.
According to the German police, he lives in Munich, adding that his motif was unclear.
“It is probably an attack,” Prime Minister Bavaria Marcus Serkus told reporters.
Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herman said the suspect was rejected by a statement of asylum, but he was not forced to leave the security problems in Afghanistan.
He later specified that the suspect had a real place of residence and work permits and that everything was legal about him.
According to the German press agency, the suspect came to Germany in 2016 as a minor.
Initially, Herman said the suspect was known in the police, but later explained that he had previously worked as a detective in the store and witnessed in several cases thefts.
Bavarian Prime Minister Marcus Seder told German television that the terrorism officials had taken a request, but “previous extremist origin is not easy to learn at first.”
The suspect was supposed to go to court on Friday.
What did the witnesses say?
Daniel Wittenberg, who reported Munich, said the strollers were scattered at the floor, and half a dozen umbrellas and high visits were scattered.
At the pedestrian crossing in the middle of the three strips, which were cordoned off by the police, a white mini -kuper, which was cordoned off by the police, was badly damaged.
A woman who works at an orthopedic shop on the road where the incident took place, the BBC reported that a half -dozen man fled to the store.
“They looked like panic and some cried,” she said.
Pedestrians were reportedly hidden for cover in shops and residential buildings that exit the highway on both sides.
One student who did not want to name his name, said the mini driver accelerated before hitting the crowd.
“It was fast enough to pull 10 to 15 people to the ground,” another witness said.
What did the authorities say?
German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz said the suspect should be punished and “should leave the country”.
“This criminal cannot rely on any indulgence,” he told Reuters to reporters.
“If it was an attack, we must take consistent measures against the possible guilty with all the means of justice.”
Markus Seder said the authorities were working on “refinement of all details”.
“This is not the first case and who knows what else will happen,” he added.
“It is even more important now that besides the treatment of individual cases, something should change in Germany.”
