In Mannheim's car crashed into people
Whether it was an accident or an attack is not clear.
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Berlin. In Mannheim, in the west of Germany, the car thrust into the crowd of people.
The police confirmed that the incident claimed at least one dead and a few seriously injured. Whether it was an accident or an attack is not clear. The police detained the driver, but did not rule out that there was still a danger.
According to DPA, the city center is seen in the city center and at least one person is covered with a tarp. Whether a person is injured or dead was not clear.
The police called on the city's inhabitants to avoid the center. According to the local media, the car was from the Water Tower, which is one of the symbols of Mannheim, after the pedestrian zone on the central square of Paradeplatz.
In cities in the west of Germany today, on pink Monday, culminates carnival celebrations. There are tens to hundreds of thousands of people in the centers of Cologne, Düsseldorf or Mainz. In Mannheim, which has 320,000 inhabitants, a large parade was held on Sunday.
The circumstances of the incident are not yet clear. But Germany has been shaking several attacks in recent months.
In December he hit visitors Christmas markets in Magdeburg A doctor from Saudi Arabia. He killed six people and injured hundreds of others.
In January he killed an unsuccessful applicant for Asylum from Afghanistan in Aschaffenburg Bavaria a two -year -old child and an adult.
In Munich, another Afghan was thrown away in February into a trade union parade and killed a two -year -old girl and her mother.
Last week's Syrian refugee He severely injured a Spanish tourist in the Berlin Memorial of the Holocaust.
At least the last two attacks are being checked by the police as Islamistically motivated. Already last May in Mannheim, Afghan had stabilized five people and killed an intervening cop.
