The suspect plunged his car into a crowd in Mannheim, Germany on Monday, killing one person and injuring another, the report says.
Police said the suspect was in custody. Local media reported that the car was driving at high speed in a crowd at Paradeplatz Square in Mannheim, according to Reuters.
Locals are now being urged to avoid the downtown Mannheim area for police operations.
“We can confirm that one perpetrator has been arrested,” police spokesman Stefan Wilhelm told The Associated Press. “We cannot provide information yet as to whether there are any more perpetrators.”
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Police officers are standing next to a damaged vehicle in the city centre of Mannheim, Germany on Monday, March 3rd. (Boris Roessler/DPA via AP)
German Home Minister Nancy Phèser cancelled his participation in the Carnival Street Parade in Cologne due to an event in Mannheim.
“The focus is now on saving lives, dealing with the injured and dealing with the initial investigation by Mannheim authorities,” a spokesperson for the Interior Ministry told DPA News Agency.
The incident comes weeks after the death of a two-year-old girl and her mother in a car charge attack in Munich.
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They are seen scattered across the streets of Manechim, Germany following the reported car charge attack on Monday, March 3rd. (Dieter Leder/DPA via AP)
The attack came the day before Vice President JD Vance and other Vice Presidents gathered in Munich for the Munich Security Conference.
German prosecutors later said the 24-year-old Afghan suspect in the Munich case appeared to have been motivated by Islamic extremism.
Last year, six people were killed and more than 200 were injured when a car was hit at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, East Germany.
Following the incident on Monday, March 3rd, emergency services and police are standing in Paradeplatz, Mannheim, Germany. (renépriebe/dpa via ap)
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The arrested suspect, originally a 50-year-old doctor from Saudi Arabia, has expressed anti-Muslim views and support for the German party's far-right anti-immigrant alternative, the Associated Press reported.
Fox News' Thomas Ferraro and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
