A car rushed into the crowd and made at least one dead and several injured in Mannheim, Germany, this Monday, March 3, according to the authorities’ first report. A suspect was arrested.
A car that rushes into the crowd. This Monday, March 3, at midday, a vehicle struck several passers-by in the city of Mannheim, southwest of Germany, reports the German press. The car was in the shopping street Planken, circulated at high speed and ended its race in a pedestrian zone according to information from Bild. It is still too early to know if it is an accident or on the contrary a voluntary attack. “A suspect was identified and arrested,” German police said in a statement.
One person died and several others were injured by the passage of the car, some seriously, according to the first assessment drawn up by the authorities. The German newspaper Bild evokes a heavier and more precise assessment of two dead and 25 injured, including 15 seriously affected. A police operation is underway and the German authorities have called on citizens to avoid the city center of Mannheim. “A large part of the urban area has been declared dangerous,” said a police spokesman on the NTV channel, adding that it was a “deadly risk”. The population is invited to “stay at home,” he added, without wanting to specify the reasons for this alert.
The event occurs a little more than three weeks after the attack on the raised car which had left two dead and around thirty injured in Munich, also in Germany, on February 13.
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“A suspect was identified and arrested,” said the police in a statement. The individual would be the driver of the car specifies the Bild newspaper. After the event, all the streets of the city center have been closed and all the roads leading to the city are controlled. A helicopter also flies over Mannheim.