GERMANY - Mannheim / 3 March. A car ploughed into a crowd of people in southwest Germany on Monday, killing two people, authorities said, adding that they arrested a 40-year-old German man after the incident.
"Two people have died as a result of their injuries and several others are seriously injured," Thomas Strobl, the interior minister of Baden-Württemberg, said in a statement.
It is unclear whether there are other suspects, the spokesman added.
The incident occurred as crowds gathered in towns in the western German Rhineland for parades to mark the carnival season.
The black SUV drove at high speed into a group of people travelling from the centrally located Paradeplatz square towards the city's landmark, local media reported.
Security is a major issue in Germany after a series of violent attacks in recent weeks, including fatal car raids in Magdeburg in December and in Munich last month, as well as a stabbing in Mannheim in May 2024.
Police are on alert ahead of this year's carnival parades after social media accounts linked to the Islamic State militant group called for attacks on events in Cologne and Nuremberg.
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