(ANSA-AFP) - MUNICH, FEB 13 - An Afghan asylum seeker was
arrested after a suspected car ramming attack injured at least
28 people in the southern German city of Munich on Thursday,
police said. The incident comes on the eve of a high-profile
international conference in Munich and amid an election campaign
in which immigration and security have been key issues after a
spate of similar attacks. A passenger car drove into a street
demonstration of striking workers from the Verdi trade union
near the city centre and was then shot at by officers, said the
deputy head of Munich police Christian Huber. The driver, a
24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, was arrested at the scene,
Huber said. Earlier a fire service spokesman told AFP that
several of those hurt were "seriously injured, some of them in a
life-threatening condition". The state premier of Bavaria Markus
Soeder told a press conference that the incident was "just
terrible" and that "it looks like this was an attack".
(ANSA-AFP).
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