Fire service spokesperson says at least eight people seriously injured in incident near scene of 2016 attack
A car has been driven into a crowd of people in western Berlin near the site of the 2016 Christmas market terror attack, killing a teacher and seriously injuring nine others.
Police are trying to determine whether the man – identified as 29-year-old German-Armenian who lived in Berlin – deliberately drove into pedestrians or whether it was an accident, possibly caused by a medical emergency. She said the woman killed was a teacher on a school trip with students from the central German state of Hesse.After steering his silver Renault Clio into a crowd of people on the pavement at around 10:30am, the man had returned to the road before again mounting the sidewalk and eventually crashing into the shopfront window of a branch of the cosmetics chain Douglas.The man was known to police for a history of property offences, which can include burglary or theft, reported newspaper Bild.
“We don’t know whether this was a deliberate act or a traffic accident,” a police spokesperson told the Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel. “We have detained the driver and are shedding light on the matter.”
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