Five people with life-threatening injuries after car crashes into crowd: Berlin fire service
A car drives into a crowd of people in Berlin, killing one person and leaving five with life-threatening injuries, a fire service spokesperson says, in a district of the German capital popular with tourists and shoppers.
More than a dozen people were injured, a police spokesperson at the scene in western Berlin said on Wednesday, next to the war-ravaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, one of German capital's best-known landmarks.
Investigators were looking into whether the incident was a deliberate attack or possibly an accident with a medical cause, a police spokesperson said.
Police were investigating all possibilities, the police spokesperson said, adding that the driver had received some medical treatment.
Blankets covered what appeared to be a body in a cordoned-off area guarded by police, Reuters images showed. A small, silver-colored Renault car was lodged inside a shop after smashing through a plate glass window.
Rescue workers moved apparently conscious people on stretchers towards an ambulance, including one woman sitting up, and another who covered her face with her hand.
John Barrowman, an actor who was at the scene, told Sky News in the UK, "I saw a woman being put into an ambulance ... it looked like they were resuscitating somebody."
The site, on a shopping street near a McDonald's restaurant, was cordoned off. Bystanders looked up at a helicopter circling above.
The incident took place near the scene of a fatal attack on December 19, 2016, when Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker, hijacked a truck, killed the driver and then plowed it into a crowded western Berlin Christmas market, killing 11 more people and injuring dozens of others.
Amri then fled to Italy, where Italian police shot him dead.
(Source: Reuters)
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