Reports indicate that a suspect used a car to ram into a group of people in Mannheim on Monday, resulting in one fatality and multiple injuries.

Authorities have apprehended the suspect. According to Reuters, local news outlets reported that a vehicle sped into a crowd in Mannheim’s Paradeplatz square.

The public is being advised to avoid the downtown Mannheim area due to ongoing police activity.

“We can confirm that a suspect has been arrested,” police spokesperson Stefan Wilhelm told the Associated Press. “We cannot yet provide details on whether there were additional individuals involved.”

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has cancelled her attendance at the carnival street parade in Cologne due to the events unfolding in Mannheim.

“The priority is now on saving lives, caring for the wounded, and the preliminary investigations being conducted by authorities in Mannheim,” a spokesperson for the interior ministry stated to the dpa news agency.

This incident occurs a few weeks after a left a 2-year-old girl and her mother dead.

That attack took place a day before Vice President JD Vance and others convened in Munich for the Munich Security Conference.

German prosecutors later stated that the suspect in the Munich incident, a 24-year-old Afghan, appeared to be driven by Islamic extremism.

Last year, six individuals were killed and over 200 sustained injuries when a in the eastern German city of Magdeburg.

The suspect, a 50-year-old doctor originally from Saudi Arabia, who had expressed anti-Muslim sentiments and support for the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative For Germany party, was arrested, the AP reported.

’ Thomas Ferraro and