A car ploughed into people on a street Germany’s eastern city of Leipzig on Monday, leaving at least one person dead and several others injured, authorities said.
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The driver was arrested after the vehicle careered from a main square down a major city centre street, close to historic sites.
Leipzig mayor Burkhard Jung confirmed one person had died, adding: “We still don’t really know the motivation. We don’t know anything about the perpetrator.”
Leipzig fire service chief Axel Schuh said two people were also seriously injured and two others were “affected.”
Police said in a post on X that the car ploughed into people on Grimmaische street and then “fled the scene.”
But they later arrested the driver, adding that “there is currently no further danger from him.”
Police deployed in large numbers along with firefighters, emergency medical personnel and two helicopters.
Leipzig is located southwest of Berlin and has more than 630,000 inhabitants, making it one of the biggest cities in eastern Germany.
Germany has faced a string of car-ramming attacks in recent years.
In December 2024, at least six people were killed and hundreds wounded in a car-ramming attack on the Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg.
There have also been similar attacks in Munich and Berlin.
Additional sources • AFP
