Asylum-seeker drives car into Munich crowd, injures 28
Police have detained the driver and did not consider him to pose any further threat, but declined to comment on whether it was an accident
Some 28 people were injured when a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker drove a car into a crowd of people in Munich in what the state premier said was probably an attack on Thursday, as the German city prepared to host a top-level security conference.
Police in the southern city said a car approached police vehicles stopped by a protest held by the Verdi union before speeding up and hitting people.
The suspected attack throws security back into the spotlight before a federal election next week following several other violent attacks.
“It was probably an attack,” Bavaria state premier Markus Soeder told reporters.
Bavaria’s interior minister said he did not suspect there was a connection to the conference.