At least three injured after car drives into crowd in Stuttgart

At least three people have been injured after a car drove into a group of people in the southwestern Germany city of Stuttgart, police have said.

The city’s police said in a post on social media that the incident happened Olgaeck district and that traffic restrictions are in place in much of the city centre.

The driver of the car was arrested at the scene, police said.

String of similar attacks

Germany has seen a spate of such incidents in recent years.

Two people died on 13 February after they were injured in a car-ramming attack on a labour union demonstration in Munich.

Some 39 people were injured in the attack and police arrested a 24-year-old Afghan national who came to Germany as an asylum seeker. Prosecutors said he appeared to have had an Islamic extremist motive.

On 20 December 2024, at least five people were killed and more than 200 were injured when a car slammed into a Christmas market in Magdeburg in eastern Germany.

And in June 2022, a 29-year-old man drove his car into a crowd of people in Berlin, killing one person and injuring dozens. Police identified the driver as a 29-year-old German-Armenian man.

Our journalists are working on this story and will update it as soon as more information becomes available.