Several casualties were reported after a car drove into a crowd of people in the western German city of Mannheim, the German media reported on Monday, citing witnesses.

Last month, a 2-year-old girl and her mother died two days after they were injured in a car-ramming attack on a union demonstration in Munich. A 24-year-old Afghan man who came to Germany as an asylum-seeker was arrested, and prosecutors said he appeared to have an Islamic extremist motive.