2 dead, 10 injured after car rams into crowd in German city

A car driven into a crowd in southwest Germany on Monday killed two people, authorities said, adding they had arrested a 40-year-old German man after the incident.

“Two people died from their injuries and several others are seriously injured,” Baden-Wuerttemberg state’s Interior Minister Thomas Strobl said in a statement.

Police spokesman Stefan Wilhelm said a driver drove into a group of people in Paradeplatz, a pedestrianised street in Mannheim. Several people were injured, he said, but police cannot yet specify how many or how badly.

“We can confirm that one perpetrator was arrested,” he said. “We cannot yet give information on whether there were further perpetrators.”

Earlier, Wilhelm said the incident had been reported as “a life-threatening deployment situation”.

“At the current stage of the investigation, there is no suspicion of a political background,” police said.