At least 30 people have been injured, some seriously, after a car was driven into a crowd in Munich, just a week before the country's federal elections. The driver was a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, police said, and was identified in local media as Farhad N. He was arrested at the scene.

A car plowed into demonstrators in Munich on Thursday injuring at least 28 people, in what a local official said was a suspected attack, shortly before world leaders were due in the southern German city for a high-level security conference.

A motorist injured 28 people Thursday in Munich when he plowed into a crowd of union demonstrators, German police said.