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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Rory Sullivan

Berlin car crash: Driving into pedestrians was ‘deliberate act of a psychologically ill man’, say police

REUTERS

The 29-year-old driver who killed a teacher and injured 14 students by ploughing into them in central Berlin on Wednesday morning may be mentally unwell, German officials have said.

After hitting pedestrians and then crashing into a shop near Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church on the Breitscheidplatz, the German-Armenian man, who has been named by local media as Gor H, was stopped by bystanders and was later detained by police.

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