- A man crashed his car into a group of German students in a Berlin retail centre, killing one teacher and wounding nine others.
- Passers-by appear to have restrained the motorist, who was then quickly apprehended by a police officer.
- Police identified the driver as a 29-year-old German-Armenian from Berlin.
Police say a man crashed his car into a group of German students in a prominent Berlin retail centre on Wednesday, killing one teacher and badly wounding nine others. He was apprehended soon.
Around 10:30 a.m., the man crashed into individuals on a street corner, got back on the road, and then crashed through a shop window about a block away, according to police.
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Iris Spranger, Berlin’s senior security official, said the woman slain was a teacher on a trip to Berlin with students from a high school in Hesse, central Germany.
Spranger clarified on Twitter on Wednesday evening that authorities now believe it was the former, calling it an “amok act by a psychologically impaired person.”
As per fire spokesperson Adrian Wentzel, six people had life-threatening injuries and three others were gravely injured.
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The incident was described as “carnage” by American-British actor John Barrowman, who was at a nearby business at the time.
The driver, police said, was a 29-year-old German-Armenian from Berlin. “Posters in which he expressed views about Turkey” were discovered in the man’s car, as per Spranger. She stated that “no claim of responsibility” had been made.
