Prosecutors see Islamic extremist motive in Munich car-ramming attack

Officials attend a minute of silence at the site where a car crashed into a demonstration in Munich (Daniel Lob/dpa via AP)

The suspect in the car-ramming attack in Munich that left more than 30 people injured appears to have had an Islamic extremist motive – but there is no evidence that he was involved with any radical network, authorities said.

The 24-year-old Afghan, who arrived in Germany as an asylum-seeker in 2016 and lived in Munich, was arrested after driving his Mini Cooper into the back of a union demonstration in the Bavarian city on Thursday.