A driver plows into a demonstration in Munich, injuring 30 people – The Associated Press
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A driver drove a car into a union demonstration in central Munich on Thursday, injuring at least 28 people including children, authorities said. Bavarian governor Markus Söder said the incident was “suspected to be an attack.”
A car hit a union demonstration in central Munich on Thursday, injuring at least 28 people including children, authorities said. Officials said it was believed to be an attack.
Police removed a damaged Mini from the scene of an incident in Munich on Thursday, after the driver ploughed into a labor union demonstration, injuring at least 28 people including children, authorities said. Officials said it was believed to be an attack.
A car is lifted onto a tow truck at the scene where a driver drove a car into a labor union demonstration in Munich, Germany, Thursday Feb. 13, 2025. (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP)
Emergency services attend the scene of an accident after a driver hit a group of people in Munich, Germany, Thursday Feb. 13, 2025. (Alexa Gr’f/dpa via AP)
Emergency services attend the scene of an accident after a driver hit a group of people in Munich, Germany, Thursday Feb. 13, 2025. (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP)
Emergency services attend the scene of an accident after a driver hit a group of people in Munich, Germany, Thursday Feb. 13, 2025. (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP)
Emergency services attend the scene of an accident after a driver hit a group of people in Munich, Germany, Thursday Feb. 13, 2025. (Christoph Trost/dpa via AP)
Emergency services attend the scene of an accident after a driver hit a group of people in Munich, Germany, Thursday Feb. 13, 2025. (Peter Kneffel/dpa via AP)
An injured person is taken away by emergency services at the scene of an accident after a driver hit a group of people in Munich, Germany, Thursday Feb. 13, 2025. (Michael Fischer/dpa via AP)
Emergency services attend the scene of an accident after a driver hit a group of people in Munich, Germany, Thursday Feb. 13, 2025. (Peter Kneffel/dpa via AP)
Emergency services attend the scene of an accident after a driver hit a group of people in Munich, Germany, Thursday Feb. 13, 2025. (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP)
Emergency services attend the scene of an accident after a driver hit a group of people in Munich, Germany, Thursday Feb. 13, 2025. (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP)
Emergency services attend the scene of an accident after a driver hit a group of people in Munich, Germany, Thursday Feb. 13, 2025. (Christoph Trost/dpa via AP)
A car is lifted onto a tow truck at the scene where a driver drove a car into a labor union demonstration in Munich, Germany, Thursday Feb. 13, 2025. (Tizian Gerbing/dpa via AP)
A car is lifted onto a tow truck at the scene where a driver drove a car into a labor union demonstration in Munich, Germany, Thursday Feb. 13, 2025. (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP)
BERLIN (AP) — A driver drove a car into a labor union demonstration in central Munich on Thursday, injuring 30 people including children, authorities said. Officials said it was believed to be an attack.
The suspect, an Afghan asylum-seeker, was arrested. The incident follows a series of attacks involving immigrants in recent months that have pushed migration to the forefront of the campaign for Germany’s Feb. 23 election.
Participants in a demonstration by the service workers’ union ver.di were walking along a street at about 10:30 a.m. when the suspect’s Mini Cooper overtook a police vehicle following the gathering, accelerated and plowed into the back of the group, police said.
Officers arrested the suspect after firing a shot at the car, deputy police chief Christian Huber said. Some of the victims sustained serious injuries. The car, with a battered front and a shattered windshield, was lifted onto a tow truck late Thursday afternoon after investigators inspected it among debris including shoes.
The suspect was a 24-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker, police said. Bavaria’s state interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, said said officials believe the protest was likely targeted at random.
The state’s justice minister, Georg Eisenreich, said a prosecutors’ department that investigates extremism and terror was looking into the case.
Police said the man, who they added lived in Munich and had a valid residence permit, was known to authorities from investigations in which he had been a witness because of a former job as a store detective.
“We feel with the victims, we are praying for the victims — we hope very much that they all make it,” Bavarian governor Markus Söder told reporters at the scene.
“It is suspected to be an attack — a lot points to that,” Söder added.
Mayor Dieter Reiter said that children were among those injured.
The Munich incident comes three weeks after a 2-year-old boy and a man were killed in a knife attack in Aschaffenburg, also in Bavaria. An Afghan whose asylum application was rejected was the suspect in that attack, which propelled migration to the center of the G
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