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The 24-year-old Afghan asylum sought a car in a crowd in the German city of Munich on Thursday, injuring at least 30 people, police said.
Officers said the incident treated as a suspicious attack.
Here’s what we know about the attack so far.
What happened?
Munich police said the car, a mini cooper, accelerated and entered the back of the rally by the Verdi union during the public sector workers strike. Happened in the city center of Munich at the Karlstrasse and Seidlstrasse intersection Around 10:30 Local Time (11:30 GMT).
Employees of daily centers, hospitals, sanitary facilities and public pools joined the strike, inviting a higher salary and longer holidays.
At the time of the collision, about 1500 people were on their way to the far place in a small place.
One shot was released by police into a vehicle before the driver was detained at the scene.
Emergency service services were in the area because of a gathering that allowed the suspect to be arrested quickly and due to injured treatment, police said.
It is unclear whether the suspect was injured.
A police spokesman told the local public email no police are checking that there is a connection between demonstrations and incidents.
The collision happened for a few hours before the US V
How much was it injured?
At least 30 people were injured, including two seriously, German police said on Thursday.
The local fire department said some of the injured were in a “dangerous state”.
Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter said the children were among the injured.
According to Bavarian media, injured people were treated in several hospitals around Munich, including a children’s hospital and a Red Cross Munich clinic.
Some of the injuries included employees of the Munich City Administration, said Deputy Mayor of Munich Dominik Krause.
Several participants in the union rally brought their children with them, “which makes the act even more feverish,” Krause said.
Who is the suspect?
The suspect, Farhad N, which we do not fully named because of German privacy rules, is a 24-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan.
He lives in Munich, German police said, adding that his motive is not clear.
“It was probably an attack,” Prime Minister of Bavaria Markus Söder told reporters.
Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said the suspect had rejected an asylum request, but was not forced to leave for security problems in Afghanistan.
He later explained that the suspect had a valid residence and work permit and that everything about it was legitimate.
According to the German Printing Agency, the suspect came to Germany in 2016 as a minor.
Herrmann said at first that the suspect was known to the police, but later explained that he had previously worked as a detective of the store and that he had witnessed in several cases of theft.
The Prime Minister of the Bavarian State Markus Söder told Germany TV that the officers of the anti-terrorism had taken over the investigation, but “the previous extremist background at first glance is not so easily recognizable.”
The suspect should have appeared in court on Friday.
What did the witnesses say?
BBC’s Daniel Wittenberg, who reports from Munich, said that at the scene there was a full wheelchair, as well as half a dozen umbrella and tall jackets.
A seriously damaged white mini cooper could be seen at a pedestrian crossing in the middle of three traffic lanes that police said.
A woman working in an orthopedic road store where an incident was happening, she told the BBC that half dozen people had entered the store.
“They looked panicked, and some cried,” she said.
Pedestrians are reportedly sprints to cover in stores and residential buildings on both sides of the road.
One student, who did not want to give his name, said that the mini Cooper driver had accelerated before hitting the crowd.
“It was fast enough to pull 10 to 15 people to the ground,” said another witness.
What did the authorities say?
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the suspect “must be punished” and “must leave the country.”
“This perpetrator cannot hope for any indulgence,” he told reporters translated by Reuters news agency.
“If this was an attack, we must take consistent measures against possible perpetrators with all justice.”
Markus Söder said the authorities work to “clarify all the details.”
“This is not the first case and who knows what else will happen,” he added.
“It is now even more important that, in addition to the processing of individual cases, besides the concern we all feel, in addition to the sympathy and in addition to the great hope that many will recover, we also show the determination that something has to change in Germany.”
