Two dead-suspect from Rhineland-Palatinate

A police operation is running in Mannheim. According to the Mannheim police, a car drove into a crowd according to initial knowledge. There are at least two dead, several people are injured. The alleged driver was arrested. It is said to have come to a crowd from Friedrichsring in the planks, the main shopping street of the city.

At least two deaths in Mannheim: suspicious German arrested

The suspected suspect is a 40-year-old German from Rhineland-Palatinate. This was shared by the Baden-Württemberg Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) the dpa with. He lies after dpaInformation injured in the hospital. The police are not assumed. A dpa-According to reporters, debris is said to have been seen in the city center, and a person was covered under a tarpaulin. So far, no information could be given about the number and severity of the injuries, the police said. In photos you can see the completely demolished black small car of the alleged driver.

There is also no further information on the circumstances. It is not yet known whether it is an accident or an attack. The Picture reports on security circles of two killed people and at least 14 injuries. Also the dpa relies on security circles and assumes two deaths. According to this, between five and ten people are injured.

The police point out that traffic impairments could occur in the city center, the officials said. On X, citizens are asked to avoid the city center of Mannheim and bypass the area. A carnival market with dozens of snack bars and rides is currently taking place on the planks and around the water tower.

Psychological support was set up on site, a police spokesman said, and there was also a notice telephone and a witness collection point. The latter is said to supply those directly involved. The University Hospital Mannheim prepared for a possible mass accident with injuries immediately after the incident. In the clinic, the disaster and deployment plan was immediately implemented, with which the care of injuries was prepared.

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Use in Mannheim: Interior Ministry of Baden-Württemberg warned about Katwarn

At 1:15 p.m., the Interior Ministry in Baden-Württemberg warned about the Katwarn Warnapp for all of Mannheim with the high warning level. In the event of « acute danger to the population and a high need for action », this is proclaimed, as it says in Katwarn. The warning was lifted in the late afternoon. In photos of the city center of Mannheim at noon, heavily armed police and numerous emergency vehicles, including the emergency services, can be seen.

The case arouses memories of several attacks in which vehicles had driven into a crowd in the past few weeks. In December, six people died in Magdeburg when a doctor from Saudi Arabia had raced through the Christmas market. In mid-February, a 24-year-old Afghan drove his vehicle into a group of demonstrators in Munich. A young woman and a child died.

At the end of May last year, the alleged Islamist Sulaiman A. had violated five participants in a rally of the Islam -critical civil movement Pax Europa and a police officer with a knife at the Mannheim marketplace. The 29 -year -old police officer later succumbed to his injuries. Another official shot down the attacker. He is currently on trial in Stuttgart. (AZ, with dpa)