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Emergency responders have kept the man who was driving the vehicle at the scene, according to the Berlin police department.

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Police said the man drove into people on a street corner Wednesday before getting the car back on the road and then crashing into a shop window.

He said police are trying to determine whether he deliberately drove into pedestrians or whether it was an accident, possibly caused by a medical emergency. The driver had suffered an epileptic seizure and veered onto the sidewalk. The man drove into people on a street corner at around 10:30 a.m. before getting the car back on the road and then crashing into a shop window around a block further on, police spokesman Thilo Cablitz said.

A 29-year-old man drove a car into a crowd of people in a busy Berlin shopping district on Wednesday, killing a teacher and leaving six others with ...

Scottish-American actor John Barrowman, who was at the scene, said that the car careened onto the pavement and hit people before crashing into a storefront window. Police are trying to determine whether the man deliberately rammed into the crowd or whether it was an accident, possibly due to a medical emergency, he added. The car then crashed into a shop window on an adjoining street, according to the city's police and fire department.

Fire service spokesperson says at least eight people seriously injured in incident near scene of 2016 attack.

“A man is believed to have driven into a group of people. “We don’t know whether this was a deliberate act or a traffic accident,” a police spokesperson told the Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel. “We have detained the driver and are shedding light on the matter.” Tagesspiegel said the driver was a 60-year-old man, citing police circles. An unspecified number of people had sustained lighter injuries.

Authorities say a teacher was killed and nine people were seriously injured after a man drove a car into a German school group standing in a popular Berlin ...

The driver had suffered an epileptic seizure and veered onto the sidewalk. Giffey said the crash brought “terrible memories” of a truck attack more than five years at the nearby Breitscheidplatz square. He said police are trying to determine whether the man deliberately drove into pedestrians or whether it was an accident, possibly caused by a medical emergency.

The driver, a 29-year-old German-Armenian who lives in Berlin, was detained swiftly after his car came to a halt in a shop window. Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey ...

She told public broadcaster RBB Inforadio that investigators are working to determine the context and what if anything else influenced him. Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey said that, by Wednesday evening, authorities had determined that it was an “amok act by a really seriously psychologically impaired person.” BERLIN — (AP) — Investigators are trying to make sense of “confused” statements by a man who drove into a school group in Berlin in what appears to have been a deliberate rampage, the city's mayor said Thursday.

Berlin's mayor says investigators are trying to make sense of “confused” statements by a man who drove into a school group in what appears to have been a ...

She told public broadcaster RBB Inforadio that investigators are working to determine the context and what if anything else influenced him. Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey said that, by Wednesday evening, authorities had determined that it was an “amok act by a really seriously psychologically impaired person.” BERLIN -- Investigators are trying to make sense of “confused” statements by a man who drove into a school group in Berlin in what appears to have been a deliberate rampage, the city's mayor said Thursday.

Berlin's mayor says the suspect, who is in police custody, is "severely mentally impaired".

"It's a big school in a small town," Mr van der Horst said. Almost all the injured were students who were on a school trip to celebrate finishing their exams. However, Ms Giffey cautioned that he has made a series of "confused statements".

Mayor says incident where teacher died and 14 children were injured was probably deliberate.

While police found a poster in the car that criticised Turkey for its role in the Armenian genocide during the first world war, it was unclear whether it belonged to the driver or his sister, the registered owner of the vehicle. Giffey said yesterday’s incident had “ripped open deep injuries and trauma”. A teacher died and 14 children on a school trip were injured when the German-Armenian driver steered his silver Renault Clio on to the pavement of a busy shopping mile at about 10.30am local time (0930 BST) on Wednesday. After driving back to the main road he crashed into the shopfront window of a cosmetics store.

BERLIN (AP) — A man drove a car into a German school group in a popular Berlin shopping district Wednesday, killing a teacher and seriously injuring nine people ...

An Islamic extremist drove into a Christmas market in 2016, resulting in 13 deaths. Authorities spent hours working to determine whether it was a deliberate attack or an accident. The driver was apparently detained by passers-by and then arrested swiftly by a police officer near the scene.

A German prosecutor says a man accused of driving into a school group in Berlin appears to have a history of mental illness.

He said 17 members of the group had been brought home. Investigators found medicines when they searched the man’s apartment, and “a great deal speaks for paranoid schizophrenia” as the suspect’s diagnosis, Buechner told reporters. He was known to police because of proceedings for suspected bodily harm, trespassing and slander, but not for political or other extremism, she added.

A 29-year-old man is accused of deliberately plowing his car into crowds of people on a busy Berlin street.

At least seven of those students and another teacher were severely injured and transported to the hospital, police said. The Berlin prosecutor’s office recommended that the court place him under psychiatric care until trial after a police search found unspecified medication at his home. Early evidence suggests that the crash was “deliberate” and that the driver could be “mentally ill,” police said in a statement Thursday.

BERLIN (AP) — Investigators are trying to make sense of “confused” statements by a man who drove into a school group in Berlin in what appears to have been ...

He said 17 members of the group had been brought home. On Wednesday June 8, a 29-year-old man drove his car into a group of students killing their teacher and crash into a store. By clicking submit, you are agreeing to our Terms and Conditions & Privacy Policy. He was known to police because of proceedings for suspected bodily harm, trespassing and slander, but not for political or other extremism, she added. Investigators found medicines when they searched the man's apartment, and “a great deal speaks for paranoid schizophrenia” as the suspect's diagnosis, Buechner told reporters. In all, 31 people were injured, 14 of them students.