On Monday afternoon, a car crashed into a crowded commercial district in Leipzig, an eastern German city, killing two people. Three more victims, according to authorities, suffered critical injuries in what is thought to have been a purposeful ramming.
The incident was carried out by a 33-year-old German national who was born in the Leipzig region and is still being questioned by authorities. He was taken into custody inside the car and is being looked into for possible murder and attempted murder.
The incident, which officials called a “terrible tragedy,” left an unknown number of people with less serious injuries. Leipzig, one of the largest cities in the east of the country, is southwest of Berlin and has a population of around 630,000.
The man drove from the Augustusplatz, a significant square, along the Grimmaische Strasse into the city’s main pedestrianized commercial district, according to police head René Demmler. He emphasized that the danger was vanished. Michael Kretschmer, the governor of Saxony State, sent his sympathies to the victims’ families.
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