BERLIN, June 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A car drove into a crowd of people in western Berlin Wednesday, killing one person, mass-selling daily Bild reported.
A spokesperson for the German capital’s fire service said 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 Berlin Morgenpost said armed police were at the scene and a rescue helicopter is “on duty”.
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.
No further information was immediately available.
Berlin police spokesman Martin Dams said the incident happened near the popular Kurfuerstendamm shopping boulevard in the west of the German capital.
He said the suspected driver of the vehicle was detained. It was unclear whether the incident was the result of an accident or whether the driver had intentionally driven into the crowd, Dams said. — NNN-AGENCIES
