The car drove into a crowd in a busy Berlin district popular with tourists, leaving at least a dozen people injured and killing one person.
| A car drove into a crowd of people in Berlin on Wednesday, killing one person and leaving five with life-threatening injuries, a fire service spokesperson said, in a district of the German capital popular with tourists and shoppers.
“A man is believed to have driven into a group of people. It is not yet known whether it was an accident or a deliberate act,” police said, adding that bystanders had detained him at the scene before handing him over to authorities.“We are currently on the scene with about 130 emergency personnel,” the police added. “The vehicle, a small car, was secured on site.”or possibly an accident with a medical cause, a police spokesperson said.
Rescue workers moved apparently conscious people on stretchers towards an ambulance, including one woman sitting up, and another who covered her face with her hand.The British actor John Barrowman, who was at the scene, told Sky News in the UK: “I saw a woman being put into an ambulance ... it looked like they were resuscitating somebody.”
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