Multiple people are fighting for their lives after a Mini Cooper drove into a crowd of trade union demonstrators in Munich.
At least 20 people, including a child, were injured after the driver reportedly accelerated and sped into demonstrators linked with the Verdi trade union on Seidlstrasse. Some were injured critically, according to the Munich fire brigade.
UpdatE: It has gone up to 28 - At least 28 injured in Munich in apparent car ramming attack
Munich-based Süddeutsche reported that one woman was dead and several hurt, some of them critically.
Police confirmed on X they had detained the driver and did not consider him to pose a further threat. Eyewitnesses told Bild that two men were in the mini, shots were fired before the driver was arrested.
Eyewitnesses were left sitting on the ground "crying and shaking", according to a journalist on the ground, as dozens of ambulances and police surrounded a Mini Cooper with a smashed up windscreen.
Police are working to confirm whether the driver acted deliberately in driving into rally organised by German trade union Verdi.
A demonstrator told Bayerischer Rundfunk: "I was in the demonstration and saw that a man was lying under the car. Then I tried to open the door, but it was locked."
According to the German BILD news outlet, the man was a 26-year-old Afghani man, this is unconfirmed so far but a good and not unrealistic start.
München: Auto fährt in Menschenmenge! Söder: „Mutmaßlicher Anschlag“
It is now confirmed, the driver is a 24-year-old Afghan "asylum seeker" aka imported rapist.
Munich latest: Driver in suspected car ramming attack in Munich was Afghan asylum seeker, officials say
Munich's mayor Dieter Reiter told Bild: "The police chief has just informed me that a vehicle drove into a group of people and unfortunately many people were injured, including children. I am deeply shocked. My thoughts are with the injured."
Verdi, Germany's second largest trade union with around 1.9 million members, had called a strike for municipal childcare workers on Thursday, calling for better wages and working conditions.
A spokesperson for local police said: "There is currently a major police operation in the area of Dachauer Straße. We are on site."
Journalist Sandra Demmelhuber wrote in a post on X: "There was an incident in Munich at the Verdi rally. A car drove into the demonstration.
"A person was lying on the street and a young man was taken away by the police. People were sitting on the ground, crying and shaking. Details still unclear."
Traffic disruptions are expected around the scene, police said. "Please avoid the area so that the emergency services can work unhindered," they added.
The Munich Security Conference is to start on Friday and US vice president JD Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy due to arrive later on Thursday.
A large-scale police operation was underway near the southern city's central train station.
Driver who hit union rally in ‘suspected attack’ in Munich is Afghan asylum seeker, police say
Two people fighting for life and 28 injured as car drives into crowd Munich attack
The way the German media phrases it as a "vehicle" that rammed protestors, along with the lack of care about the identity, Germans are already making guesses.
At least 20 people, including a child, were injured after the driver reportedly accelerated and sped into demonstrators linked with the Verdi trade union on Seidlstrasse. Some were injured critically, according to the Munich fire brigade.
UpdatE: It has gone up to 28 - At least 28 injured in Munich in apparent car ramming attack
Munich-based Süddeutsche reported that one woman was dead and several hurt, some of them critically.
Police confirmed on X they had detained the driver and did not consider him to pose a further threat. Eyewitnesses told Bild that two men were in the mini, shots were fired before the driver was arrested.
Eyewitnesses were left sitting on the ground "crying and shaking", according to a journalist on the ground, as dozens of ambulances and police surrounded a Mini Cooper with a smashed up windscreen.
Police are working to confirm whether the driver acted deliberately in driving into rally organised by German trade union Verdi.
A demonstrator told Bayerischer Rundfunk: "I was in the demonstration and saw that a man was lying under the car. Then I tried to open the door, but it was locked."
According to the German BILD news outlet, the man was a 26-year-old Afghani man, this is unconfirmed so far but a good and not unrealistic start.
München: Auto fährt in Menschenmenge! Söder: „Mutmaßlicher Anschlag“
It is now confirmed, the driver is a 24-year-old Afghan "asylum seeker" aka imported rapist.
Munich latest: Driver in suspected car ramming attack in Munich was Afghan asylum seeker, officials say
Munich's mayor Dieter Reiter told Bild: "The police chief has just informed me that a vehicle drove into a group of people and unfortunately many people were injured, including children. I am deeply shocked. My thoughts are with the injured."
Verdi, Germany's second largest trade union with around 1.9 million members, had called a strike for municipal childcare workers on Thursday, calling for better wages and working conditions.
A spokesperson for local police said: "There is currently a major police operation in the area of Dachauer Straße. We are on site."
Journalist Sandra Demmelhuber wrote in a post on X: "There was an incident in Munich at the Verdi rally. A car drove into the demonstration.
"A person was lying on the street and a young man was taken away by the police. People were sitting on the ground, crying and shaking. Details still unclear."
Traffic disruptions are expected around the scene, police said. "Please avoid the area so that the emergency services can work unhindered," they added.
The Munich Security Conference is to start on Friday and US vice president JD Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy due to arrive later on Thursday.
A large-scale police operation was underway near the southern city's central train station.
Driver who hit union rally in ‘suspected attack’ in Munich is Afghan asylum seeker, police say
Two people fighting for life and 28 injured as car drives into crowd Munich attack
The way the German media phrases it as a "vehicle" that rammed protestors, along with the lack of care about the identity, Germans are already making guesses.
