Terrorist attack Berlin, truck crashes in the Christmas market left 12 dead
police car and ambulance standing before a business building in Heidelberg, West Germany, where a man hit pedestrians on February 25, 2017 R Priebe AFP.
Police car and ambulance standing before a business building in Heidelberg, West Germany, where a man hit pedestrians on February 25, 2017 R Priebe AFP.
One dead after man drives into the crowd in Germany; Authorities say no sign of terrorism Add to.
One man died and two others were injured after a 35 year old German drove into a crowd standing near a bakery in the southwestern city of Heidelberg on Saturday, but authorities said there was no indication that it was a terrorist attack.
The man aged 73 who died in hospital of his injuries was also German Two other people injured, an Austrian aged 32 and a woman aged 29 years, Bosnia and Herzegovina, also received treatment in hospital but were then evacuated the police and prosecutors said in a statement.
Based on the investigations to date, there is no sign of a terrorist motive, they said.
The statement said the suspect was seen leaving the car with a knife and was then tracked to an old pool has been taken to a Heidelberg hospital having been shot by police during his arrest, leaving him seriously injured.
It has since been operated on, but nothing else is known about the current state of his health, police and prosecutors said.
Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung regional newspaper said the suspect was not fit to be questioned.
The spokesman of Heiko Kranz police were gathering evidence experts such as DNA traces and fingerprints and to examine the contents of the car, adding that the suspect would be questioned if he was fit to be challenged.
The investigations by the prosecutors' office in Heidelberg and the criminal police of the city continued, according to police.
The Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung said the suspect was stopped at a red light and when it turned green put his foot before hitting the group of people at high speed and hit a pillar.
The German authorities are on alert after a Tunisian asylum-seeker failed drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin on December 19, killing 12 people.
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