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Two people were killed in a serious car accident in Berlin-Treptow.

Two more were rushed to hospital with injuries.

Your car was torn apart in the accident, caught fire and burned out completely.

The police work continued into Wednesday.

The accident site was initially closed, said a police spokeswoman.

The driver of the car had lost control of the vehicle on Tuesday evening for an initially unexplained cause.

The car with the four occupants skidded near Treptower Park, first knocked down two trees on the roadside and finally hit a construction container.

The impact of the accident was so great that the car was torn apart and went up in flames.

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One of the inmates died at the scene of the accident, another later in the hospital.

Two injured had to be treated in hospital, one of them with severe burns.

The slightly injured person is said to be the driver, the police have already applied for an arrest warrant against him, reports the "Berliner Morgenpost".

All four involved are between 20 and 30 years old, the police said in the evening.

Although a spokeswoman said no details about the identity of the inmates in the morning, according to the newspaper, which refers to police circles, the inmates are said to have a “clan connection” and come from Neukölln.

The crashed vehicle is a rental car from a Neukölln car rental company. 

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According to the medium, the officials suspect an illegal car race in the Tempo 30 zone as the cause of the accident.

However, the investigators have not yet received any evidence of another vehicle.

The "speeding paragraph" (§315 StGB) also applies to so-called "solo races".

The fire brigade was on site with more than 80 emergency services during the night.

A pedestrian who had seen the accident suffered a shock.