Several killed, multiple injuries as car ploughs into pedestrians in German city of Trier

German police say several people have been killed and up to 15 others injured when a car sped through a pedestrian zone in the city of Trier.

The city’s Mayor Wolfram Liebe had earlier put the death toll at two people.

“We have an amok driver in the city. We have two dead that we are certain of and up to 15 injured, some of them with the most severe injuries,” he told SWR.

“We are just trying to get an overview. We have ambulances from all over the region helping here. Our first task now is to make people safe.”

There was no immediate indication of the possible motive.

The Trierischer Volksfreund local newspaper quoted an eyewitness as saying a dark grey Range Rover was driving at high speed and people had been thrown through the air.

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