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Berlin (dpa / bb) - After a serious accident in Berlin-Treptow, a third car occupant died.

The public prosecutor announced on Wednesday.

The fully occupied car went into a skid near Treptower Park late on Tuesday evening, knocked down two trees on the roadside and crashed into a construction container.

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

One of the inmates died at the scene of the accident, the second and third later in the hospital.

The cause of the fatal crash was still unclear.

So far it has only been said that the car was traveling at excessive speed.

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