Germany, car on the crowd in Leipzig: two dead and three seriously injured. 33-year-old driver arrested

Two people died and three were seriously injured after a car ploughed into a crowd in the centre of Leipzig. This was reported on the Reuters website, citing the local broadcaster Mdr in contact with the local police.

According to the mayor of Leipzig, Burkhard Jung, the driver of the car, a 33-year-old German, was arrested. At the time of the arrest, the driver reportedly showed signs of psychic imbalance, writes the Bild, adding that Jung declared that there was no longer any danger. The authorities currently rule out a political motive and speak of an indiscriminate attack.

The dynamics of the incident are not yet clear, but according to the local radio station Radio Leipzig reported by Reuters online, a damaged Volkswagen SUV with a woman clinging to the windscreen of the car. was seen speeding through a pedestrian area of the city. It was apparently a grey Volkswagen Taigo. According to the Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper, the car was stopped by a retractable bollard.

The broadcaster quoted eyewitnesses as saying that several bodies were covered by sheets and that a stabbing had also occurred.

The accident took place on Grimmaische Strasse, a commercial street connecting several points of interest with the market square in Leipzig. A journalist from the Mr. Wissen broadcaster present at the scene reported, citing eyewitnesses, that the car was travelling at a speed of 70 to 80 km/h.