A car ploughed into a crowd on a street in Germany’s eastern city of Leipzig on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring several others, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Germany has been shaken by a series of car-ramming attacks in recent years, including one targeting a Christmas market in 2024 in Magdeburg, and also in Berlin and Munich.<\/p>\n
In the latest incident in Leipzig, the driver was arrested after his vehicle careered from a main square down a major city centre street, close to historic sites.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leipzig mayor Burkhard Jung gave a death toll of two, adding: “We still don’t really know the motivation. We don’t know anything about the perpetrator.”<\/p>\n
Police and the fire service also said two people were killed.<\/p>\n
At least two people were seriously injured while 20 others were more lightly hurt, according to local fire chief Axel Schuh.<\/p>\n
Police said that the car ploughed into people on Grimmaische street, a major pedestrian zone in the city’s old town lined with shops and historic buildings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The driver has been arrested; there is currently no further danger from him,” they said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The driver stopped of his own accord, they added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
TV pictures showed a white vehicle with a badly damaged windshield and hood, and the street cordoned off and surrounded by emergency vehicles.<\/p>\n
Police deployed in large numbers along with firefighters, emergency medical personnel and two helicopters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
– Series of rammings –<\/p>\n
Since the Berlin attack in December 2016, carried out by a Tunisian with jihadist motives who drove a truck into the crowd, killing 13 people, Germany has faced repeated ramming attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 2024, a Christmas market in Magdeburg was targeted by a Saudi man with Islamophobic views, who drove a car into the crowd, killing six people and injuring more than 300.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In February 2025, a mother and her daughter were killed and around 30 people injured by the Afghan driver of a vehicle that rammed into a march in Munich.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The attacks came as sensitivities have grown in parts of German society over immigrants, following a large migrant influx in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Immigration and security have risen up the political agenda in German political debate, helping fuel the rise of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD).<\/p>\n
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