German authorities announced that the number of injured in the incident in which a car plowed into a crowd of Verdi workers’ union members protesting on Seidlstrasse Street in Munich at 10:30 local time has risen to 28.

A police officer who spoke to the German press stated that the driver, who was driving behind a police vehicle and plowed into the crowd and that shots were fired at his vehicle, was a 24-year-old Afghan refugee and that the possibility of other people being involved in the attack was not considered.

According to the German SPIEGEL newspaper, the suspect, namely, Farhad N., came to Germany in 2016 and started living in Munich by obtaining a permit to stop deportation after the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees rejected his asylum application.

Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said the suspect had previously been detained over theft and drug-related crimes.

“The incident is suspected to be an attack,” Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder said.