Car drives into Munich crowd, injures 20
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.
At least 20 people were injured when a car drove into a crowd in Munich on Thursday, police said, as the southern German city prepares for a top-level security conference due to be attended by US Vice-President J.D. Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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The Bild newspaper said police would have to establish whether the driver of the Mini Cooper had deliberately driven into the crowd or mixed up the accelerator and brake.
Police said on X they had detained the driver and did not consider him to pose any further threat, but declined to comment on whether it was an accident.
“At least 20 people injured, some seriously and critically,” a spokesperson for Munich police said.
The Munich Security Conference starts on Friday and senior officials, including Vance and Zelensky, were arriving later on Thursday.
Members of the emergency services work at the scene where a car drove into a crowd in Munich. Security has been in sharp focus in Germany ahead of a federal election next week and following a string of violent attacks. Photo: AFP
A large-scale police operation was underway near the city’s central railway station.