Car drove into a crowd and a shop window/twitter.com/saikirankannan
In Berlin, a Renault car crashed into a crowd. This happened at the same place where the terrorist attack took place in December 2016.
A car crashed into a crowd of people on Breitscheidplatz near the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. This area is west of the central part of the city.
According to preliminary data, at least one person died. The number of victims is being specified. According to preliminary data, there are eight of them. Although there was information about 30 victims, but so far it has not been confirmed.
After that, the car flew into the window of one of the shops, where it stopped.
The car stopped in a shop window/Photo twitter.com/saikirankannan
Police immediately stopped the driver. It is not yet known whether this was a planned terrorist attack or an accident.
About 60 external services are working at the scene of the incident.
The site of the bloody terrorist attack
The accident occurred at the same same place as the attack on the Christmas market in Berlin on December 19, 2016. Then 24-year-old Tunisian Anis Amri, who was an ISIS fan, sent a truck he had stolen at full speed into a crowd of people. As a result, 12 people were killed, about 50 were injured.
Another victim of the terrorist was the Polish driver Lukasz Urban, whom Amri shot while hijacking the truck.
Anis Amri managed to escape after the attack. But later he was killed in the suburbs of Milan in a shootout with the police.
