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Several people were killed and others injured after a car collided with pedestrians in the German city of Trier, police said.
At least two people were killed and 15 others injured in the collision, which occurred Tuesday in a pedestrian zone in the city center, Trier Mayor Wolfram Leibe said.
The 51-year-old driver, who is from the Trier-Saarburg district, was arrested and the vehicle seized, police added.
Armed police are displayed in Trier city center.
A spokesman for the force said on Twitter that “several” people were killed in the incident.
Police officers and the mayor are currently on the scene and two helicopters are circling overhead, Trierischer Volksfreund reported.
“We have a driver who went crazy in the city. We have two dead that we are sure of and up to 15 injured, some of them with the most serious injuries,” Leibe told a news conference this afternoon.
“I just walked downtown and it was horrible. There’s a coach lying on the ground, and the girl
what it belongs to is dead, “he added.
Emergency services surround a cordon at the accident site in Trier, southwestern Germany
A witness told Trierischer Volksfreund that the vehicle departed from the city’s famous Roman gate, the Porta Nigra, towards the main market and then onto Fleischstrasse, where it struck several pedestrians.
Another claimed to have seen a pram blown up in the market before passersby flooded his shop while trying to escape, the newspaper reported.
Parents were told to pick up their children from nearby schools and emergency services urged people to stay away from the city center while they deal with the incident, the report added.
The officers appear near the main market of the city.
Trier is located about 120 miles west of Frankfurt, on the German border with Luxembourg.
Four years have passed since a terrorist drove a truck through a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 shoppers.
