Several people were killed or injured on Tuesday (December 1) after being struck by a car in the center of Trier, Germany, local police said, who said they had arrested the driver.
She had previously reported two deaths, specifying that she was then relying on the "first elements" at her disposal.
Fifteen people were injured, some "seriously", according to the mayor of the city, Wolfram Leibe, referring to a "crazy driver".
The vehicle was seized by investigators, police said.
Fear of attacks
The latter was not able, early Tuesday afternoon, to specify whether it was an accident, the gesture of a madman or a possible attack with the ram car.
A witness quoted by the Trierischer Volksfreund newspaper said he saw a dark-colored Range Rover pass at high speed, throwing pedestrians into the air.
The center of the city has been cordoned off and helicopters are flying over the place, reports this newspaper.
The mayor of Trier, a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, in southwestern Germany, not far from the border with Luxembourg, went there.
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