What do we know about suspicious car attack in Munich

Police said the 24 -year -old Afghan refugeer on Thursday threw a car into a crowd in a mob in the German city of Munich, injured at least 30 people.

Officials said they consider the incident as a suspicious attack.

Here we still know about the attack.

The Munich police said the car, a mini cooper, intensified rapidly and fell backwards by the Wardi Trade Union during the strike by public sector workers. It took place at the Junction of Carlstras and Seddustrass in the City Center of Munich Around 10:30 local time (11:30 GMT).

Employees of day-to-day centers, hospitals, hygiene facilities and public swimming pools joined the strike, calling for high salary and prolonged holidays.

At the time of the collision, around 1,500 people were on their way away from the last place of the rally.

A bullet was fired on the vehicle by the police before the driver was detained at the scene.

Police said that emergency services were in this area due to the rally, so that the suspect could be arrested quickly and the injured could be treated.

It is not clear whether the suspect was injured or not.

A police spokesperson told the local public broadcaster BR that the police was investigating whether there was a link between the demonstration and the incident.

The accident occurred a few hours earlier as the US vice -president and Ukrainian President Munich came to the city for the security conference – but the police say they do not believe it is related.

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

Local fire service said that some of those people were in “the situation of life-threatening”.

Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter said the children were among the injured.

According to the Bavarian media, the injured were being treated in several hospitals around Munich, including children’s hospitals and Munich Red Cross Clinic.

Some of the injured consisted of employees of Munich city administration, Munich’s Deputy Mayor Dominic Crust said.

Many participants brought their children with them at the trade union rally, “that makes the Act even more heinous”, the Cruce said.

The suspected, Farhad N, whom we are not fully nominated by the German privacy rules, are 24 -year -old refugee from Afghanistan.

He lives in Munich, the German police said that his purpose was not clear.

“It was probably an attack,” told reporters by Premier Marcus Soder of Bavaria state.

Bavarian Internal Minister Jochim Herman said that the suspect had rejected his refuge application, but was not forced to leave him due to security concerns in Afghanistan.

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

According to the German press agency, the suspect came to Germany as a minor in 2016.

Herman initially said that the suspect knew the police, but later it was explained that he had previously worked as a store detective and had been a witness in many cases of shoplifting.

Bavarian State Premier Marcus Soder told German TV that anti-terrorism officials had captured the investigation, but “previous extremist backgrounds are not so easily recognizable at first glance”.

The suspect was scheduled to appear in court on Friday.

BBC’s Daniel Witanberg reporting from Munich said that a pram was scattered on the floor at the scene, as well as half a dozen umbrellas and high-Jackets.

A severely damaged white mini cooper can be seen at a pedestrian crossing in the middle of a three -lane traffic, which was closed by the police.

A woman working at an orthopedic shop on the road where the incident took place, told the BBC that half a dozen people came running in the shop.

“They looked nervous, and some people were crying,” he said.

The pedestrians allegedly sprayed for the cover in shops and residential buildings, which are in line from both sides.

A student, who did not want to give his name, said that the driver of Mini Cooper intensified before killing the crowd.

Another witness said, “It was quite fast to draw 10 to 15 people to the ground.”

German Chancellor Olaf Sholaz stated that the suspect should be “punished” and “the country should leave”.

“This criminal cannot expect any generosity,” he told reporters, in a translation of Reuters News Agency.

“If it was an attack, we should take continuous action against possible criminals with all means of justice.”

Marcus Soder said that the officials were working to “clarify all the details”.

“This is not the first case and who knows what else will happen,” he said.

“Now it is even more important that apart from the processing of personal matters, apart from this concern, what we all seem, apart from sympathy and great hope that many will be cured, we also show determination in Germany Something has to be changed.