Horror at the shops
FOUR people including a baby were killed after a car ploughed into shoppers yesterday.
Onlookers screamed in panic as the Range Rover “threw people in the air” in south-west German city Trier.
A pram was hit in the carnage as the vehicle rampaged through a pedestrianised area.
In video captured at the scene, a suspect was seen being pinned to the ground by cops. It was unclear if the horror was terror-related.
The incident brought back harrowing memories of the truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market which left 12 people dead in 2016. Trier mayor Wolfram Leibe broke down as he told of the dead and injured.
He said: “We had a driver who ran amok. I just walked through the city centre and it was just horrible. There is a trainer on the ground, and the little girl it belongs to is dead.”
Leibe said people who saw the incident were “totally traumatised” and the street “looks a bit like after a war”.
Regional premier Malu Dreyer said a baby was among the victims, which she described as “so horrible”.
She added: “We are hoping and praying the injured persons will recover.”
Witnesses told of a dark grey Range Rover driving at high speed into the pedestrianised area near the city’s Roman gate, Porta Nigra.
Video footage showed a man being wrestled to the ground as he was arrested by cops close to a badly damaged vehicle. Police, said a 51-year-old local man was being questioned.
Chancellor Angela Merkel described the attack as “shocking”, adding: “Our thoughts are with victims’ relatives and the many injured.”