The vehicle came to be embedded, Wednesday morning, in a window of a lively district of the capital.
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The tragedy unfolded on a large and busy shopping street in Berlin, Tauentzienstrasse. Around 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, June 8, ucar hit passers-by, firefighters told AFP and the German press (in German). The toll is heavy: a teacher was killed and the emergency services counted “more than a dozen injured” six of which are “between life and death” and three others are “seriously injured”.
The driver, a 29-year-old man, was arrested, police said, without specifying whether it was an intentional act or a loss of control of the vehicle. “We have no tangible proof of a political act so far”said Berlin police chief Barbara Slowik at the end of the day.
Derzeit gibt es einen größeren Einsatz in der #Tauenzienstraße.
Ein Mann soll in eine Menschengruppe gefahren sein. Ob es sich um einen Unfall handelt oder vorsätzliches Handeln, ist noch nicht bekannt. Einsatzkräfte halten den Mann, der gefahren sein, soll vor Ort fest.
^tsm— Polizei Berlin (@polizeiberlin) June 8, 2022
The vehicle came to be embedded in the window of a pharmacy, specifies the information site RBB (in German). The crowd was great at this time of day in this commercial and tourist district located near the zoological garden, west of the capital.
Among the injured are teenagers from the Land of Hesse (west) who were on a school trip to Berlin, according to the authorities of this region. In addition to the deceased teacher, another of their teachers was seriously injured.