{"id":27553,"date":"2025-03-04T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27553"},"modified":"2025-03-04T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T06:55:00","slug":"german-man-drives-car-into-pedestrians-killing-2-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/03\/german-man-drives-car-into-pedestrians-killing-2-people\/","title":{"rendered":"German man drives car into pedestrians killing 2 people"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) – 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.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Five people were seriously injured and another five suffered minor injuries in the incident, investigators said.<\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Germany has endured a number of violent attacks over the last year, which have left several people dead and hundreds injured.<\/p>\n

Nine months ago, also in Mannheim and only a few blocks away from where Monday’s attack is believed to have taken place,\u00a0an Afghan man stabbed several people, killing a policeman.<\/p>\n

Then, in August, another\u00a0knife attack left eight people injured and three dead in Solingen. The Syrian man who was charged with the crime was suspected of links with the Islamic State terrorist group.<\/p>\n

In December a man rammed a car into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg,\u00a0leaving six dead and 299 injured. A 50-year-old Saudi psychiatrist was arrested.<\/p>\n

In January, a 28-year-old Afghan asylum seeker attacked\u00a0a group of small children in a park\u00a0in the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg, killing a two-year-old child and a passer-by who tried to help the boy.<\/p>\n

And in February, a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker drove a car into a crowd, injuring more than two dozen people.\u00a0A mother and child later died from their injuries.<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) – 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,194,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-world","category-headline"],"views":52,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27555,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27553\/revisions\/27555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}