‘EXTREME DANGER’

Apparent Car Ramming Attack Leaves One Dead in Germany

A child is also reported to be in critical condition after the incident took place just after noon local time in the German city of Mannheim.

German authorities have issued a warning of “extreme danger” in the southwestern city of Mannheim after a reported car ramming at around midday on Monday. At least one person is understood to have died, with three others, including a child, receiving “acute medical care” at the Mannheim University Hospital. Eyewitnesses told German newspaper Der Spiegel the car drove into several pedestrians nearby a local carnival market before taking off again at high speed in what they described as a “hit-and-run,” with police adding that a suspect has since been arrested and remains in custody. “It’s heartbreaking,” as one cafe owner told German reporters, noting the incident had conjured painful memories of the fatal Mannheim knife attack that claimed the life of a police officer last year. It also marks the third apparent ramming to have rocked Germany in almost as many months, with a mother and her child killed after a Mini Cooper was driven into a crowd of protesters in Munich earlier in February, and six people killed after a vehicle plowed into a Magdeburg Christmas market in December.