Car in crowd in Germany – at least four dead – VG

Report to Trier Police on Twitter. They first reported the incident at 2.15pm today.

The Südwestrundfunk television channel reports that the mayor of the city, Wolfram Leibe, tells them that at least two people have been killed and 15 injured, some of them seriously.

When asked about the number of deaths and injuries, Karl-Peter Jochem, a police spokesman in Trier, told Bild Zeitung that “there are more deaths and more injuries.”

The police report that the driver of the car has been detained and that he is in control of the vehicle. They ask people to stay away from the city center.

The arrested man is a 51-year-old German, police said at a press conference at 15.25. The man is from the Trier-Saarburg region.

Police said at the press conference that the car must have traveled about a kilometer on the pedestrian street before being stopped.

A witness told the local Volksfreund newspaper that a gray Range Rover was speeding down Brotstraße street and there were injuries.

– People were flying through the air, says the witness.

A video circulating on social media shows police detaining a man right next to a large gray car with a dented hood.

Trier police spokesman Uwe Konz told the German newspaper Bild that ambulance personnel are working at the scene and that the police are still unable to say anything about the background to the incident, or whether it is terror or not.

Photos and videos from the city show a massive emergency response and a large number of ambulances at the scene.

Trier is a city of 110,636 inhabitants, located in western Germany near the border with Luxembourg.

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