The car crashed into a store
BERLIN, June 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A teacher was killed and 14 schoolchildren were injured after a car hit a crowd on a busy street in the German capital, Berlin.
The group was on a school trip to Berlin from the state of Hesse. A second teacher was seriously hurt.
Police say the driver, a 29-year-old man, was arrested at the scene.
Berlin Interior Affairs Minister Iris Spranger said evidence suggested the driver was a “mentally ill person running amok”.
The incident occurred shortly before 10:30 (08:30 GMT) in the heart of western Berlin, on one of its busiest shopping streets.
The woman who died has been identified as a schoolteacher who was on a trip with a class of teenagers from the central state of Hesse. Berlin police say she died on the spot.
“There are seriously injured people among the more than a dozen injured,” police spokesperson Thilo Cablitz said.
Bad Arolsen Mayor Marko Lambion said a bus was on its way to pick up the children from Berlin. “We’re doing everything we can to bring them home,” he said at the press conference.
The driver has dual German and Armenian citizenship and lives in Berlin.
Witnesses described seeing a silver Renault Clio veering into a crowd of people on the pavement near Berlin’s busy Kurfürstendamm shopping avenue, before driving back on to the road and crashing into a shop window.
A witness who would only be named as F Kacan said the driver had abandoned the car and had taken off running but “we were able to stop him”. — NNN-AGENCIES
