Person in custody is an Afghan asylum seeker, who was previously known to police due to drug-related offences, theft.
At least 28 people, including children, have been injured, some of them seriously, after a car drove into a group of people in the German city of Munich, authorities said.
Authorities did not provide details of the incident near downtown Munich that took place about 10:30am (09:30 GMT) on Thursday, including whether the victims were hit deliberately.
Police said on social platform X that the driver was “secured” at the scene and no longer poses any danger. A damaged Mini Cooper could be seen at the scene.
The fire service said at least 28 people were injured, two of them seriously, according to German news reports.
Al Jazeera’s Dominic Kane, who is reporting from Wetzlar, Germany, said that the driver of the car is a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, who was previously known to police due to drug-related offences and petty theft.
Our correspondent quoted the Bavarian Premier Markus Soeder as describing the incident as a “probable attack by the person concerned.”
Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter said he was “deeply shocked” by the incident. He said children were among those injured.
A demonstration by the service workers’ union ver.di was taking place at the time of the incident. It was not immediately clear whether demonstrators were among the injured.
The suspected attack throws security back into the spotlight before a federal election next week following several other violent attacks.
Al Jazeera’s Kane said that the issue of migration is among the serious topics being discussed as 60 million voters head to the polls on February 23.
The attack also came hours before leading international figures, including US Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, were in the city for the high-profile three-day Munich Security Conference, which starts on Friday.
