A vehicle has run over a crowd of people in western Berlin, killing one person according to the Bild newspaper and injuring at least 30 on Wednesday, several of them seriously, a spokesman for the Berlin fire brigade said. German capital.
According to the first information, the vehicle got on the road and ran into a store. The driver of a small Renault car has been arrested. Several heavily armed police officers are at the scene of the crime, near the Kurfürstendamm avenue, and the fire brigade is on the scene with 60 emergency services.
"It is believed that a man ran over a group of people. It is not yet known if this was an accident or a deliberate act," police said. It was not clear if the crash was the result of an accident or if the driver had intentionally driven into the crowd, spokesman Martin Dams said.
The incident took place near the scene of a deadly attack on December 19, 2016, when Anis Amri, a Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist ties who had been denied papers, hijacked a truck, killed the driver and then crashed it. against a busy West Berlin Christmas market, killing 11 more people and injuring dozens more.
