At least 28 people remain in hospital – including two children – after an attack with weary, eerie echoes of other violent attacks in Germany: a crowded public place, a speeding vehicle, a foreign national suspect who was known to police and whose deportation was overdue.

A driver drove a car into a union demonstration in central Munich on Thursday, injuring at least 28 people including children, authorities said. Bavarian governor Markus Söder said the incident was “suspected to be an attack.

Car crashes into a union demonstration in Munich, injuring 28, including children. Suspect, an Afghan asylum-seeker, arrested. Authorities suspect an attack. Read more at republicworld.com

German police say a 24-year-old Afghan citizen who had applied for asylum has been arrested after a car was driven into a union demonstration, injuring 28.