As reported on Wednesday, a car rammed into a crowd in Berlin. According to the newspaper “Bild”, a teacher who was traveling with a school group has died. Further details are now known. According to the fire service, eight people were seriously injured, five of them in life-threatening condition.
There are also minor injuries. Police believe that a total of more than 12 people were injured, although the number could rise. According to “Bild”, the dead person is said to be a teacher who was traveling with her group of students in Tauentzienstrasse. An official confirmation is still pending. “The driver would have first hit a group of people and then a shop window,” the Berlin police said on Twitter. The accident site is a popular area for shopping and tourists.
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The driver, a 29-year-old German-Armenian, drove his small Renault car onto the Ku’damm sidewalk at around 10:26 am and into a group of people in the Charlottenburg district. He then drove back to the intersection and nearly 200 yards east on the road, police said. Shortly before the corner of Marburger Strasse, he steered the vehicle off the road back onto the pavement, collided with another car, crossed the road and ended up in the window of a perfumery. One person in the store was injured.
Accident or medical emergency conceivable
According to the newspaper “Bild”, which refers to witnesses, the driver initially ran away. Passers-by, however, could have detained him and handed him over to the emergency services. Police are still investigating whether the crime was intentional or a traffic accident. A medical emergency cannot be ruled out either. The driver of the accident must clearly be “impressed with what happened”. “I don’t want to speculate,” said police spokesman Thilo Cablitz. The officials also ask on Twitter not to distribute recordings from the site of the event on the internet.
“There are currently about 60 emergency services on site and on the way,” reports the fire brigade. The police were deployed with 130 troops. Berlin Senator Iris Spranger (SPD) was already shocked by the incident. She’s in the situation center and keeps herself informed. “My thoughts and deepest condolences are with the family,” she wrote on Twitter.
Source: Krone
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