Berlin

One person has been killed and at least a dozen others injured after a car ploughed into a crowd of people in a popular shopping district in Berlin.

This is serious because there’s multiple fatalities.’ This is bad. The driver, said by police to be a 29-year-old German-Armenian living in the capital, was arrested at the scene. The man was surrounded by a crowd of police officers. She was out with a group of students, some of whom are believed to be among those hurt in the crash, which took place close to the war-ravaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church on Wednesday morning. The victim was a female teacher who was struck when the silver Renault Clio mounted the pavement in Charlottenburg at more than 90mph, according to Bild.

Police said the incident happened near a popular shopping boulevard and close to the scene of the 2016 Christmas market terrorist attack.

They are clearing out the area," the actor said in a video posted near the scene. The driver had suffered an epileptic seizure and veered onto the sidewalk. It is not yet known whether it was an accident or a deliberate act," police said.

He said the suspected driver of the vehicle, a 29-year-old man of dual German-Armenian citizenship, had been detained. A spokesperson for the Berlin's fire ...

He said police are trying to determine whether he deliberately drove into pedestrians or whether it was an accident, possibly caused by a medical emergency. Blankets covered what appeared to be a body in a cordoned-off area guarded by police, Reuters images showed. I would like to thank the more than 130 emergency services for their quick response and care for those affected.” Police are still investigating whether the crash was intentional. It is not yet known whether it was an accident or a deliberate act,” police said. A spokesperson for the Berlin’s fire service told Reuters around 30 people were injured.

Driver tried to run away after crashing near Kurfürstendamm but was captured by passers-by and handed to police, witnesses report.

There’s multiple fatalities and hundreds of emergency services that are in the area. “A man is believed to have driven into a group of people. It is not yet clear whether the crash was intentional.

Emergency responders have kept the man who was driving the vehicle at the scene, according to the Berlin police department.

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'It is not yet known whether it was an accident or a deliberate act,' say police.

Bild released a picture of the alleged driver being detained, wearing a yellow pullover, jogging trousers and red trainers. Blankets covered what appeared to be a body in a cordoned-off area guarded by police, Reuters images showed. However, a letter of confession was found in the car that drove into a crowd of people on a Berlin shopping street, killing one person, Bild reported. It is not yet known whether it was an accident or a deliberate act,” police said, adding that bystanders had detained him at the scene before handing him over to authorities. More than 130 emergency personnel were on the scene, said officials. It also said that the driver of the Renault Clio car was male, known to police and was a German-Armenian. And it also reported that the victim was a teacher.

The Berlin fire department reported one death but said multiple people were injured in Wednesday's incident.

“The police presence is unbelievable. A police spokesperson said that police had learned from the experience in 2016 in dealing with Wednesday's incident. They are clearing out the area but it was cordoned off, I heard the bang and the crash when were in a store and we just saw the carnage.” The driver was said to be a 29-year-old German-Armenian living in Berlin. The suspect was arrested by police at the scene and has been named in German media as “Gor H”. He said: “It’s really pretty bad guys ... There’s a lot of police, there’s a dead body in the middle of the road.” According to police, a man drove into people on a street corner at around 10.30am local time before getting the car back on the road and then crashing into a shop window around a block further on.

A 29-year-old man drove a car into a crowd of people in a busy Berlin shopping district on Wednesday, killing a teacher and leaving six others with ...

Scottish-American actor John Barrowman, who was at the scene, said that the car careened onto the pavement and hit people before crashing into a storefront window. Police are trying to determine whether the man deliberately rammed into the crowd or whether it was an accident, possibly due to a medical emergency, he added. The car then crashed into a shop window on an adjoining street, according to the city's police and fire department.

A man believed to be the driver of the vehicle has been detained, Berlin police said.

The cordon keeps expanding." "For the first 10-20 minutes it was just sheer chaos," he added. This is serious," he continued in video messages posted on social media. "How horrible that this morning these people got up to just go through a regular day, they were going through their daily business. It's pretty horrific." An apparent confession letter was found in the car.

A teacher was killed and nine other people were seriously injured when a man drove a car into a German school group standing in a popular Berlin shopping ...

He added that officers were trying to determine whether he had deliberately driven into pedestrians or whether it was an accident, possibly caused by a medical emergency. The driver had suffered an epileptic seizure and veered onto the pavement. The driver was apparently detained by passers-by before being arrested by a police officer who was near the scene, Mr Cablitz said.

The incident happened near the popular Kurfuerstendamm shopping boulevard in the west of the German capital.

He added that officers were trying to determine whether he had deliberately driven into pedestrians or whether it was an accident, possibly caused by a medical emergency. The driver had suffered an epileptic seizure and veered onto the pavement. The driver was apparently detained by passers-by before being arrested by a police officer who was near the scene, Mr Cablitz said.

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“How horrible that this morning these people got up to just go through a regular day, they were going through their daily business. The cordon keeps expanding.” The driver had suffered an epileptic seizure and veered onto the pavement. He said: “The person came on the pavement by the Levi store and the bank, then drove onto the street, hit the person and killed them in the street, then came back onto the kerb, went down the kerb, through the cafe area and then into the storefront. This is serious. This is bad.

Authorities have arrested a suspect and questioned his mental health. Last night, locals flocked to a service at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church on the ...

The driver had suffered an epileptic seizure and veered onto the sidewalk. Actor John Barrowman, who was in a nearby store at the time, described the scene as ‘carnage’. Berlin’s top security official, Iris Spranger, explained that the woman killed was a teacher on a trip to Berlin with students from the secondary school in the central German state of Hesse. The driver was apparently detained by passers-by and then arrested swiftly by a police officer near the scene. Pictures showed a sombre group gathered in the church in front of a likeness of Jesus, while outside the school near Kassel, candles were lit. A man drove into a school group on a popular shopping district in the German capital, leaving a teacher dead and seriously injuring nine people.

Berlin's mayor says the suspect, who is in police custody, is "severely mentally impaired".

"It's a big school in a small town," Mr van der Horst said. Almost all the injured were students who were on a school trip to celebrate finishing their exams. However, Ms Giffey cautioned that he has made a series of "confused statements".

Berlin's mayor says investigators are trying to make sense of “confused” statements by a man who drove into a school group in what appears to have been a ...

She told public broadcaster RBB Inforadio that investigators are working to determine the context and what if anything else influenced him. By clicking ‘Register’ you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use, Cookie policy and Privacy notice. Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey said that, by Wednesday evening, authorities had determined that it was an “amok act by a really seriously psychologically impaired person.”

Berlin's mayor says the suspect, who is in police custody, is "severely mentally impaired".

"It's a big school in a small town," Mr van der Horst said. Almost all the injured were students who were on a school trip to celebrate finishing their exams. However, Ms Giffey cautioned that he has made a series of "confused statements".

Mayor says incident where teacher died and 14 children were injured was probably deliberate.

While police found a poster in the car that criticised Turkey for its role in the Armenian genocide during the first world war, it was unclear whether it belonged to the driver or his sister, the registered owner of the vehicle. Giffey said yesterday’s incident had “ripped open deep injuries and trauma”. A teacher died and 14 children on a school trip were injured when the German-Armenian driver steered his silver Renault Clio on to the pavement of a busy shopping mile at about 10.30am local time (0930 BST) on Wednesday. After driving back to the main road he crashed into the shopfront window of a cosmetics store.

After hitting pedestrians and then crashing into a shop near Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church on the Breitscheidplatz, the German-Armenian man, who has been named ...

The Scottish-American actor John Barrowman was at the scene shortly after the incident. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. The police later said 14 students were among this group. Another teacher is fighting for his life following the incident. A statement from police said investigations pointed to the “deliberate act of a psychologically ill man”. A statement from police said investigations pointed to the “deliberate act of a psychologically ill man”.