A man died and two other people were injured after a 35-year-old German man drove into a crowd standing near a bakery in the southwestern town of Heidelberg on Saturday, but the authorities said there were no indications that it was a terrorist attack, APA reports quoting Reuters
The 73-year-old man who died in hospital from his injuries was also German. The two other people injured, a 32-year-old Austrian man and a 29-year-old woman from Bosnia and Herzegovina, also received hospital treatment but were then discharged, police and prosecutors said in a statement.
"Based on investigations so far, there are no signs of a terrorist motive," they said.
According to the statement, the suspect was seen getting out of the car with a knife and was later tracked down to an old swimming pool. He was taken to a hospital in Heidelberg having been shot by police while being arrested, leaving him seriously injured.
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A man drove into a group of people standing by a bakery in the southern German town of Heidelberg on Saturday, injuring three people, one of them seriously, police said in a statement, APA reports quoting Reuters..
Police said the suspect got out of the vehicle with a knife. While he was being arrested police shot him, leaving him seriously injured. He is now in a hospital in Heidelberg, the statement said.
One pedestrian wounded in the incident is in a critical condition.
Media reports suggested that the man was armed with a knife.
The man who drove a black Opel was intercepted by a police patrol and shot by a law enforcer after a short standoff.
A police spokesman David Faulhaber told Sputnik that he "can neither confirm nor deny" that the incident is a terror attack. He also could not say whether those injured are the city's citizens or not.
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