At least two people were killed and several others injured Tuesday when a car plowed into pedestrians in the southwestern German city of Trier, according to reports.
The driver was arrested and the car was impounded after it slammed into the crowd in the pedestrian zone in the city, located about 120 miles west of Frankfurt, police said.
Mayor Wolfram Leibe told the SWR broadcaster that in addition to the two fatalities, 15 people had suffered serious injuries.
Police in the Rhineland-Palatinate, where Trier is located, said on Twitter that people should “avoid the area,” adding that “police as well as other emergency services are on the scene.”
“We arrested one person and one vehicle was seized,” police said. “The care of the injured has absolute priority.”
No details were immediately available on the cause of the crash.
According to local reports, the car was driven “at speed” from the city’s Porta Nigra gate, according to the UK’s Express.
The local Trierischer Volksfreund newspaper quoted an eyewitness as saying that several people were flung through the air when struck by the Range Rover, the Express reported.
“I saw countless people jumping to the side, over 30 people were lying on the street, some of them motionless,” a witness told FOCUS Online. “It felt like the car was going at 70 to 80 kilometers per hour — he didn’t beep his horn, he just accelerated.”
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