German police arrest gambling driver A Renault car crashed into a crowd of shoppers in Berlin on Wednesday morning, injuring at least eight people and killing at least one.
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Scottish Americans Dr. Ai Actor John Barrowman, who happened to be on a busy shopping street when the Renault jumped to the side of the road, described a scene of utter chaos that followed. “It’s actually pretty bad, guys,” he said in a video account posted on Twitter.
“Behind us there are policemen, there are other police cars coming. There’s a helicopter coming. Really bad. This is serious, because there are many deaths,” he said, although police have not confirmed more than one death. “There are hundreds of emergency services operating in the area, blocking block after block. The rope is constantly expanding. ”
Strongly armed anti-terror police forces were immediately dispatched to the scene, according to photos on social media.
The tragedy took place very close to where Anis Amri, a Tunisian with Islamic terrorist ties, killed 11 people after driving A pickup truck was robbed into a Berlin Christmas market in the Kurfuerstendamm shopping district in 2016.
Berlin fire service spokesman Stefan Salzwedel confirmed the death of at least one of those hit by bullets.
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