Police in Germany say one person was killed and others injured when a car rammed into a crowd in western Germany, police said. A suspect is in custody.

Police in Mannheim, Germany asked people to avoid the downtown area after a vehicle plowed into a crowd near a Carnival season event.

An 83-year-old woman and a 54-year-old man were killed and several more people were injured Monday in a suspected car ramming in the west German city of Mannheim, officials said.