Suspected Munich car attack: What we know happymamay

Police said that a 24 -year -old student drove a car to a crowd in Munich, Germany, on Thursday, injuring at least 30 people.

The officers said they were treating the accident as a suspected attack.

Here is what we know about the attack so far.

Munich police said that the car, a miniature Cooper, accelerated and plowed at the back of a gathering by the Verdi Workers Union during a strike by public sector workers. This happened in the center of Munich at the intersection At about 10:30 local time (11:30 GMT).

Employees of day care centers, hospital, sanitation facilities and public swimming pools joined the strike, and called for the highest salaries and longer holidays.

At the time of collision, about 1500 people were on their way to the final site of the gathering a short distance.

One shot was shot by the police before the driver was arrested at the scene.

Police said that emergency services were in the area due to the march that allowed the suspect to rely quickly and to the wound for treatment.

It is not clear whether the suspect has been injured.

A spokesman for the local public broadcaster told the police that the police are verifying whether there is a link between the demonstration and the accident.

The accident occurred hours before the American Vice President and Ukrainian President arrived in the city to attend the Munich Security Conference – but the police say they do not think it is linked.

German police said on Thursday that at least 30 people were wounded, including two seriously.

The local firefighting service said that some of the affected people were in a “life -threatening state.”

Munich mayor Dieter Rieter said the children were among the injured.

According to the Bavarian media, the injured were treated in multiple hospitals throughout Munich, including a children’s hospital and the Red Cross Clinic in Munich.

Munich’s deputy mayor Dominic Kraos said that some of them were injured, including employees of the Munich city administration.

Kraos said that many participants in the union gathering have brought their children with them, “which makes the act more horrific.”

The suspect, Farhad N, who is not fully named because of the German privacy law, is a 24 -year -old asylum seeker from Afghanistan.

German police said he was residing in Munich, adding that his motivation was not clear.

“Maybe it was an attack,” Bavaria Prime Minister Marcus Soder told reporters.

The Bavarian Interior Minister, Joachim Hermann, said that the suspect had rejected his asylum, but he did not have to leave due to security concerns in Afghanistan.

He later explained that the suspect had a valid permit and a valid work permit and that everything about him was legitimate.

According to the German Press Agency, the suspect came to Germany in 2016 as a minor.

Hermann initially said that the suspect was known to the police, but later made it clear that he had previously worked as a store detective and was a witness in many cases of theft.

Bavarian state Prime Minister Marcus Soder told German that anti -terrorist officials had taken over, but “previous extremist backgrounds cannot be easily recognized at first glance.”

The suspect was scheduled to appear before the court on Friday.

Daniel Whitenburg of the BBC, who is from Munich, said that there is a stroller scattered across the ground at the scene, as well as half a scale of umbrellas and high jackets.

Cooper Mini white can be seen severely damaged at a pedestrian crossing in the middle of three passes of the traffic that the police would visit.

A woman working in an orthopedic store told the road where the BBC accident occurred that half of the people came to the store.

She said, “They started panic, and some people cry.”

According to what was reported, the pedestrians run to cover stores and residential buildings on both sides of the road.

One of the students, who did not want to give her name, said the mini coper driver accelerated before hitting the crowd.

Another witness said, “He was fast enough to withdraw 10 to 15 people on the ground,” said another witness.

German counselor Olaf Schulles said the suspect “must be punished” and “must leave the country.”

“This perpetrator cannot hope for any leniency,” told reporters in a translation from Reuters news agency.

“If this is an attack, we must take fixed measures against potential perpetrators with all the means of justice.”

Marcus Soder said that the authorities are working to “clarify all the details.”

“This is not the first case and who knows what will happen.”

“It is now important that in addition to treating individual cases, in addition to the anxiety we all feel, in addition to sympathy in addition to the great hope in which many will recover, we also show determination this is something that must change in Germany.”