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Car drives into a crowd in Berlin, one dead

08 June 2022 16:25 (UTC +04:00)

One person has been killed and at least a dozen more injured after a car drove into a crowd on a busy Berlin street, APA reports citing BBC.

Emergency officials say it is unclear whether the incident, which happened at around 10:30 local time (08:30 GMT), was intentional or an accident.

A police spokesperson told reporters that the driver, a 29-year-old man, was arrested at the scene.

The incident took place in the heart of western Berlin, on one of its busiest shopping streets.

"There are seriously injured people among the more than a dozen injured," police spokesperson Thilo Cablitz said.

Police added that the driver, who has dual German and Armenian citizenship and lives in Berlin, had initially been apprehended by passers-by.

*** 13:31

A car drove into a crowd of people in western Berlin on Wednesday, killing one person, APA reports citing Reuters.

A spokesperson for the German capital's fire service told Reuters around 30 people were injured.

"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 he was being held at the scene.

The incident took place near the scene of a fatal attack on Dec. 19, 2016, when Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist links, hijacked a truck, killed the driver, and then plowed it into a crowded western Berlin Christmas market, killing 11 more people and injuring dozens of others.