BERLIN, March 3 (Reuters) - There are no indications of an extremist or religious background to Monday's car ramming incident in the western German city of Mannheim, the regional interior minister said.
A car drove into a crowd in Mannheim, killing at least two people and seriously injuring several others, overshadowing carnival celebrations in the region where police had been on alert for attacks.
"At this time, we have no indications of an extremist or religious background regarding the specific motivation for the act," Thomas Strobl, interior minister of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, told reporters. "The motivation may rather be rooted in the perpetrator's own personal circumstances. However, this is the subject of ongoing investigations."