One person was killed and several injured after a car drove into pedestrians in the German capital, Berlin.
Police spokesman Martin Dams said the incident happened near the popular Kurfuerstendamm shopping boulevard in the west of the German capital.
Bild newspaper reported that the victim was male. Helicopters had been deployed to take some of the injured to hospital. More than 130 emergency personnel were on the scene, said officials.
Five of those injured have life-threatening injuries, officials said.
Police said the suspected driver of the vehicle had been detained.
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Reports claimed the driver tried to run away but was held down by passers-by. Armed police helped secure the area.
A spokesperson for the German capital’s fire service told Reuters that around 30 people were injured.
Investigators were looking into whether the incident was a deliberate attack or possibly an accident with a medical cause, a police spokesperson said.
“A man is believed to have driven into a group of people. It is not yet known whether it was an accident or a deliberate act,” police said, adding that bystanders had detained him at the scene before handing him over to authorities.
Bild said the man had been driving a small Renault car.
The incident took place near the scene of a 2016 fatal attack when Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist links, hijacked a truck, killed the driver and then plowed it into a crowded western Berlin Christmas market, killing 11 people.
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Caught up in the incident was American actor John Barrowman, who took to Twitter to say the situation was “horrific”.