- A automotive crashed right into a crowd of individuals in Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday morning.
- One particular person was killed and extra are critically injured, the police stated.
- Police stated the motive force was arrested and that it isn’t but clear if it was intentional.
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One particular person died and others are critically injured after a automotive plowed right into a crowd of individuals in Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday morning, the capital metropolis’s police stated.
Eight individuals had been injured, Bild reported, citing the hearth division. The automotive was a Renault mannequin, the newspaper stated.
The driver has since been arrested, stated Thilo Cablitz, a spokesman for the Berlin police.
The drive doesn’t but know whether or not the incident was an accident or intentional, Cablitz stated.
The incident came about in a well-liked purchasing district in Berlin, simply throughout the Breitscheidplatz in Berlin’s Charlottenburg district, the place a terrorist slammed a hijacked truck right into a Christmas market in 2016 and killed 12 individuals.
Berlin information channel RBB24 (*8*) Cablitz as saying the automotive drove into individuals standing at a avenue nook, then drove onto a street, after which crashed into a store window.
The Scottish-American actor John Barrowman stated in a video on Twitter on Wednesday that he was on the scene, and that he was okay.
He stated that the automotive got here onto the pavement, crossed onto a street the place it hit somebody, after which went onto one other pavement and went “through a bunch of people” earlier than going by means of the entrance window of a retailer.
He stated there was a “dead body in the middle of the road.”