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A man behind the wheel of a stolen truck rammed several vehicles on Monday night in Limburg, in western Germany, leaving a dozen injured before being arrested, police said, not excluding any clues, nor the terrorist.

"We do not have enough elements on the context" of what happened, the police said at night, while several testimonies compiled by the local press referred to the erratic behavior of the suspect, whose journey concluded after a few hundred meters.

According to police, "a man" was made at 17:20 local (15:20 GMT) with the control of a truck in the city center and hit a little further against several vehicles waiting before a red light in front of the Palace of Justice. Several injured people had to be taken to the hospital and the suspect, also injured, was arrested.

The truck was still at night at the scene, with the bumper shattered, while the mechanics took nine injured vehicles, the AFP said.

"What do you want of me?"

According to the German press agency DPA, which quoted a spokesman for the regional police, there were 17 injured, one of them "in critical condition . " For its part, the local newspaper Frankfurter Neue Presse reported that six people were hospitalized while 11 minor injuries were able to return to their homes.

"We exclude absolutely nothing," said the spokesman quoted by DPA when asked about a possible terrorist attack in this city of 35,000 inhabitants near Frankfurt, the financial capital of Germany.

"The investigation continues, with witness statements and evidence gathering," the police insisted in their statement.

The usual driver of the truck, quoted by the Frankfurter Neue Presse, said he saw a man in his thirties, with a beard and shaved hair, his gaze "fixed and maybe under the influence of the drug" , which opened the door of his vehicle and took it out of it without a word.

"I asked him: 'What do you want from me?' But he didn't say a word. I asked him the question again and he took me out of the truck, "said the man, an employee of a logistics firm.

After the collision, which occurred a few hundred meters away, the suspect, with his nose and hands full of blood, was arrested by a group of runners, several witnesses told the newspaper.

According to Bettina Yeisley, a worker who came to the place with her colleagues after hearing the impact, the man explained that "everything hurt" and that his name was Mohammed. Other people around him said he pronounced the word "Allah" several times , the Frankfurter Neue Presse explained. The police did not confirm any of these elements.

"Do not guess, please," insisted the regional police address on Twitter.

The German authorities are on alert following jihadist attacks in recent years. The deadliest of them was in December 2016, when Tunisian Anis Amri killed 12 people by ramming into a Christmas market in Berlin.

Last April, the head of internal intelligence, Thomas Haldenwang, estimated in 2,240 the number of Islamists with a "terrorist potential" living in Germany.

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