One person was killed and others injured when a car rammed into a crowd Monday in western Germany, police said. A suspect is in custody.
Police in the city of Mannheim asked the public to stay away from the downtown area and keep inside their homes. Other details were not immediately available.
Mannheim has a population of roughly 326,000 people and is located about 85 kilometres south of Frankfurt.
A spokesperson for police, Stefan Wilhelm, told N-TV television an “incident” occurred at around 12:15 p.m. in the Paradeplatz area of downtown Mannheim that triggered a large police deployment.
Authorities pushed an alert on the Katwarn app telling people in Mannheim to avoid the city’s downtown area due to a big police deployment.
Katwarn is used by officials to communicate information about major emergencies such as thunderstorms, militant attacks or fires.
More to come.
