A multiple outrage that occurred in the center of Mannheim has left at least two dead and several injured, as confirmed by the Interior Ministry.
Stefan Wilhelm, a police spokesman, has said that he could confirm that at 12.15 local time (11.15 GMT) A vehicle entered a pedestrian area of the city and ran over a group of people present, causing “the death of a person and several people were seriously injured.”
The German Western City of Mannheim has deployed a wide device in the center of the city, before what several local media describe as A multiple outrage with a vehicle.
According to the images broadcast on ‘NTV’ television, an abundant number of police ambulances and vehicles They have cordoned off the place of facts.
“At this time there is a police operation in the center of the city of Mannheim, in the Wasserturm/Plankenkopf area,” police said in a statement.
“Police and emergency services are on their way. No more information is available. In this context, there may be temporary interruptions of traffic in the city center, “he added.
The author of the outrage has been arrested
Although the authorities are not yet in a position to expand details about the number of victims or the severity of their injuries, they have reported that The alleged author of the outrage has been arrestedas highlighted by the Baden-Wurtemberg State Police in a statement.
The city of Mannheim was the scene last summer of a series of incidents after A police officer died after being stabbed During an act of the Pax Europe antiislamist movement. Days later, a politician of the alternative ultra -rightist for Germany (AFD) was also attacked with a white weapon.
Germany has registered several altercations in recent weeks that are investigated as possible terrorist attacks that range from stabbing to massive abuses, the last one in the city of Munich, where 2 people died and another 37 were injured.
