Terrorist drives car at bikers in Berlin

An Iraqi-born man deliberately drove his car into motorcycles along a stretch of Berlin motorway, leaving at least one person in a life-threatening condition in what German officials said was a terror attack.

“We assume this was an Islamist-motivated attack,” Berlin’s senator for the interior Andreas Geisel said. “A religiously motivated background cannot be excluded.”

Six people were injured, three of them severely, when the 30-year-old man drove into several vehicles, intentionally hitting motorcycles, Berlin prosecutors and police said.

The crashes at three different locations happened during rush hour shortly before 7pm local time and led to a closure of one of the city’s main traffic arteries of Berlin.

Investigators did not disclose the man’s identity, as is customary in Germany, but media identified the suspect as Sarmad D.

He is being investigated for three cases of attempted murder.