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A German 73 year old succumbed to his injuries after being hit by a car in a central square in Heidelberg, a city in southwest Germany on Saturday night The vehicle struck a pedestrian area, fatally wounding the man and wounding slightly two others, an Austrian aged 32 and a woman of 29 years in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The driver fled the scene and was shot by police while trying to make his escape, he was seriously injured and taken to a nearby hospital, according to local newspaper Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, the man is currently unfit to be questioned.
The police protected the crime scene after a man hit several pedestrians with a car outside a bakery in downtown Heidelberg.
There is no indication of a terrorist background, spokesman David Faulhaber Police told reporters He said he could not comment on possible motives for the attack.
On Twitter, police responded to speculation that the driver was an immigrant, writing, and again, for the entire German world with NO Suspect immigrant.
In an interview with the channel n-tv, police officer Norbert Schaetzle said the man was supposed to be carrying a knife Schaetzle has not confirmed whether the man was mentally disturbed, but said that the author the vehicle probably acted alone man used was a rental car.
The man fled to his car after injuring three people.
The Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung quoted police saying that the suspect was stopped at a red light, then accelerated after the light turned green continuously, leading to his car hit a group of people.
The initial incident site was a square buzzing usually with pedestrians, located near several transport stations, and at the entrance of a shopping district in Heidelberg The city is best known as a university town - about a quarter of its 150,000 inhabitants are students Heidelberg is home to Germany's oldest university and several renowned research institutes.
The attacks with vehicles are a sensitive issue for many Germans, the country is on high alert since a state so-called man aged 24 with alleged links to Islamic drove a stolen truck in a market Noël bondé in the center of Berlin in December last year, killing 12 people in July 2016, a similar attack in Nice, France has left 86 dead.
The police tracked the man to a location a few hundred meters from the crime scene.
A man drove into a group of people, three people wounded, captured and shot the suspect, local police wrote on Twitter, using the hashtag Bismarckplatz, the name of the place where the man drove the car.
Police also shared a photo of investigators on the scene with the legend of our colleagues are investigating.
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