A car was driven into a crowd in Munich on Thursday morning local time, sparking a large police operation in the German city.
Firefighters said at least 20 people were injured, while police said they were able to detain the driver of the car and did not consider him to pose any further threat.
“One person is lying on the street and a young man has been taken away by the police. People are sitting on the ground, crying and trembling,” a reporter for the local BR broadcaster wrote in a post on X.
Munich is currently preparing for a top-level security conference due to be attended by US Vice-President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The Munich Security Conference is set to start on Friday and senior officials, including Mr Vance and Mr Zelenskyy, are due to start arriving later in the day.
The incident took place near Munich’s central train station — about 1.5 kilometres from the security conference venue — where people were participating in a demonstration linked to a strike organised by the Verdi trade union.
The union said it did not yet have any information on the incident.
Security was already in sharp focus in Germany ahead of a federal election next week and following a string of violent attacks.
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