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Two people died from their injuries and several others are seriously injured,
Baden-Wuerttemberg state's Interior Minister Thomas Strobl said in a statement It breaks one’s heart.”
Kasim Timur, 57, who runs a cafe on Paradeplatz, told Spiegel online via telephone Initially she thought it was someone who had caused an accident and fled the scene,
This horrific, inhuman attack on peaceful people has deeply shocked us all,
My thoughts are with the victims and their families,
Germany's likely future chancellor, Friedrich Merz, wrote in a post on social media X At the current stage of the investigation, there is no suspicion of a political background,
The migrant community and the advice centers report that attacks have increased by more than 70% here in the city,
said Saeeid Saeeid, who came to Germany from Syria seven years ago and is a member of the association The focus is now on saving lives, treating the injured and the initial investigations by the authorities in Mannheim,
an interior ministry spokesperson told dpa We can confirm that one perpetrator was arrested,
No information can be given yet on the number and severity of the injuries. As part of the search measures that were immediately initiated, a suspect was identified and arrested,
the police said, stressing that We can now confirm that a car was driven into a pedestrian zone and that one person was killed,
said police spokesman Stefan Wilhelm, adding There is currently a police operation in Mannheim city center, in the area around Wasserturm/Plankenkopf. Police and rescue services are on their way.”
A spokesperson for Mannheim police said It is terrible here, nobody knows what happened, you only see injured people and the dead, and you don’t know what to do.”
One stall holder at the market said, according to MM Due to the police deployment, citizens are asked to avoid Mannheim city centre and to take a wide detour."
This act is one of several crimes in the recent past in which a car was misused as a weapon,
said the Baden-Wuerttemberg state interior minister Thomas Strobl Once again we mourn with the relatives of the victims of a senseless act of violence and fear for the injured, ... We cannot accept this."
Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on X, adding
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