EPISODE · Mar 4, 2025 · 1 MIN
Two people dead after car drives into crowd in Mannheim, Germany
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Two people - an 83-year-old woman and a 54-year-old man - have been killed after a vehicle drove into a pedestrian area in the city of Mannheim, western Germany.Five people were seriously injured and another five suffered minor injuries in the incident, investigators said.Authorities arrested a lone suspect, a 40-year-old German man, who is not believed to be linked to extremism but shows "concrete indications of mental illness".The suspect, who prosecutors said was a landscape gardener, remains in hospital in a stable condition after shooting himself with a gun loaded with blanks.The incident occurred at around 12:15 local time (11:15 GMT), Mannheim police said.CCTV footage showed a black hatchback car speeding along Planken shopping street in Mannheim, heading west.Images from the scene showed police inspecting the car, a small black Ford, which had sustained heavy damage to its front. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Two people - an 83-year-old woman and a 54-year-old man - have been killed after a vehicle drove into a pedestrian area in the city of Mannheim, western Germany.Five people were seriously injured and another five suffered minor injuries in the incident, investigators said.Authorities arrested a lone suspect, a 40-year-old German man, who is not believed to be linked to extremism but shows "concrete indications of mental illness".The suspect, who prosecutors said was a landscape gardener, remains in hospital in a stable condition after shooting himself with a gun loaded with blanks.The incident occurred at around 12:15 local time (11:15 GMT), Mannheim police said.CCTV footage showed a black hatchback car speeding along Planken shopping street in Mannheim, heading west.Images from the scene showed police inspecting the car, a small black Ford, which had sustained heavy damage to its front. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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