At least 36 people were wounded after a Mini Cooper drove into a group of people in the German city of Munich on Thursday, Munich Police reported on Friday.
Bavaria state premier Markus Soeder told reporters it was "probably an attack,"
The driver of the vehicle was a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker named by the general prosecutor’s office in Munich as Farhad Noori. Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter said later on Thursday that Noori was in Germany legally.
German media reported that at least two of the wounded are in serious condition, and a child is in critical condition. An eyewitness told BILD that the car had rammed a woman with a child and that the "mother and child were lying under the car."
Reiter told BILD that the police chief has informed him that many people were injured, including children. He said he was "deeply shocked."
The police statement added that the Noori was detained on-site and poses no further danger.
The attack occurred during the 'Verdi strike,' which was called by the Verdi trade union as part of the ongoing wage dispute.
German security
The Munich Security Conference is to start on Friday and senior officials, including US Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, were arriving later on Thursday.
The incident occurred around 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) from the security conference venue.
In a past German attack back in December 2024, six people were killed, and over 200 were wounded after a man drove his car into a German Christmas market.