What we know about suspected car attack in Munich

A 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker drove a car into a assemblage of radical successful the German metropolis of Munich connected Thursday, injuring astatine slightest 28 people, constabulary person said.

Officers said they were treating the incidental arsenic a suspected onslaught and the suspect, who has been arrested, was known to constabulary for theft and cause offences.

Here's what we cognize astir the onslaught truthful far.

Munich constabulary said the car, a Mini Cooper, accelerated and ploughed into the backmost of a rally by the Verdi commercialized national astatine astir 10:30 section clip during a onslaught by nationalist assemblage workers.

Employees of day-care centres, hospitals, sanitation facilities and nationalist swimming pools had joined the strike, calling for higher wage and longer holidays.

More than 1,000 radical were reportedly astatine the scene.

A large effect cognition was launched successful the Dachauer Strasse country and 1 changeable was fired astatine the conveyance by constabulary earlier the operator was detained astatine the scene.

It is unclear whether the fishy was injured.

A constabulary spokesperson told section broadcaster BR that constabulary are checking whether determination was a nexus betwixt the objection and the incident.

The clang happened hours earlier the US vice president and Ukrainian president were owed to get successful the metropolis for the Munich Security Conference - but constabulary accidental they don't judge it's related.

At slightest 28 radical person been injured, including 2 seriously, German constabulary said connected Thursday.

The section occurrence work said immoderate of those wounded were successful a "life-threatening condition".

Munich's politician Dieter Reiter said children were among those injured.

According to section outlet BR24, injured radical are being treated astatine aggregate hospitals astir Munich, including a children's infirmary and the Munich Red Cross Clinic.

Some of the injured see employees of the Munich metropolis administration, Munich's lawman politician Dominik Krause told the outlet.

Several participants astatine the commercialized national rally had brought their children with them, "which makes the enactment adjacent much heinous", Krause said.

The fishy is simply a 24-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan, German constabulary said, adding that his motive was unclear.

"It was astir apt an attack," Bavaria authorities premier Markus Söder told reporters.

Bavarian interior curate Joachim Herrmann said the fishy had been known to constabulary for cause and shoplifting offences.

According to the the German Press Agency, the fishy came to Germany successful 2016 arsenic a insignificant but had his asylum exertion rejected successful 2017 and has been required to permission the state since autumn 2020.

The BBC's Daniel Wittenberg, reporting from Munich, said determination was a pram strewn crossed the level astatine the scene, arsenic good arsenic fractional a twelve umbrellas and high-vis jackets.

A severely damaged achromatic Mini Cooper could beryllium seen astatine a pedestrian crossing successful the mediate of 3 lanes of postulation which had been cordoned disconnected by police.

A pistillate moving astatine an orthopaedic store connected the roadworthy wherever the incidental took spot told the BBC that fractional a twelve radical came moving into the shop.

"They looked panicked, and immoderate radical were crying," she said.

Pedestrians reportedly sprinted for screen successful shops and residential buildings that enactment either broadside of the thoroughfare.

One student, who didn't wanted to springiness her name, said the operator of the Mini Cooper accelerated earlier hitting the crowd.

"It was accelerated capable to propulsion 10 to 15 radical to the ground," different witnesser said.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the fishy "must beryllium punished" and "must permission the country".

"This perpetrator cannot anticipation for immoderate leniency," helium told reporters, successful a translation from Reuters quality agency.

"If it was an attack, we indispensable instrumentality accordant enactment against imaginable perpetrators with each means of justice."

Bavaria authorities premier Markus Söder said authorities were moving to "clarify each the details".

"This is not the archetypal lawsuit and who knows what other volition happen," helium added.

"It is present adjacent much important that, successful summation to the processing of idiosyncratic cases, successful summation to the interest that we each feel, successful summation to the sympathy and successful summation to the large anticipation that galore volition recover, we besides amusement the determination that thing indispensable alteration successful Germany."