A man intentionally drove a car into a crowd of people at a Carnival parade in a small German town on Monday, injuring dozens of people including children, police said.
The driver was arrested, but police couldn't immediately provide details about the man's motivations for crashing into the celebrations in Volkmarsen, about 280km southwest of Berlin.
"We are working on the assumption that it was a deliberate act," police spokesman Henning Hinn said, but added that further details of the driver's motives weren't yet known.
![The silver Mercedes which intentionally drove into the carnival crowd had local licence plates. Police could not say what the male driver's motivation was. Photo / AP](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/Z3MXIROUBYA4CGJ3LI47DCJRHM.jpg?auth=68b66a505dd9c1e6d88e9d93664bf8085fcc92fdddd5ed1347781b68f909359b&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
Hinn said that "there were several dozen injured, among them some seriously and sadly also children".