Munich car horror is 'a suspected attack', officials say as Afghan asylum seeker is arrested after dozens including children are seriously injured when vehicle crashes into crowd

 

At least 28 people have been left injured in Munich following a suspected attack which saw a man ram a Mini Cooper thorough a crowd of 1,000 strikers.

 

The driver, a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, according to police, is believed to have accelerated into demonstrators. Bild has reported that that the suspect's name is Farhad N., born in Kabul in 2001.

 

According to Swiss publication Blick, he was already known to local police for drugs and theft, and drove at around 30mph into the crowd. 

Members of the emergency services work at the scene where a car drove into a crowd in the southern German city of Munich on February 13, 2025 leaving several people injured

t least 28 people were injured in thesmash, and it is understood that a mother pushing her child in a pram was among those wounded. The child's life is said to be in danger, according to local reports.

 

Bavarian governor Markus Söder said that 'it is suspected to be an attack.' It comes just weeks after a car drove into a group of people at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg, leaving at least six dead and nearly 70 injured.

 

'We have to change something - and quickly,' Söder added, referring to Germany's migration crisis which he and other politicians are pushing to tighten.

 

The incident comes as world defence leaders including US Vice-President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gather in the Bavarian city for a major security conference.Footage from the scene captured the moment the driver was arrested, as cops swarmed the vehicle and pinned him to the ground. Munich police have also confirmed they shot at the vehicle but it is unknown at this stage whether this caused any injuries.

 

 

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