Dozens of people have been injured after a white Mini Cooper was driven into a crowd of people in a “suspected attack” in Munich.

       German Police initially said 28 people had been injured in the incident but the number of casualties confirmed by officials has now risen to 30, including children. Some have sustained serious injuries.

       A 24-year-old Afghan national has been arrested. The car drove into a labour union demonstration in central Munich on Thursday morning.

       Joachim Herrmann, Bavaria’s state interior minister, said officials believe the protest was likely targeted at random.

       The state's justice minister, Georg Eisenreich, said a prosecutors’ department that investigates extremism and terror was looking into the case.

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