At least two people have been killed and 11 others injured, five of them severely, after a car was driven into a crowd of people in the German city of Mannheim, according to local police. A 40-year-old German from the nearby state of Rhineland-Palatinate was detained and in a hospital after being injured,

At least one person was killed and several more were injured in a suspected car ramming in the west German city of Mannheim on Monday, police said. A suspect was identified and arrested, Mannheim Police said in a statement, adding that "no further, reliable information can currently be released."