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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
Riham Alkousaa

German investigators question driver after 'dark day' for Berlin

Candles and flowers are placed in front of the Kaulbach secondary school in Bad Arolsen following a car crashing into a group of Berlin visitors of the Kaulbach school killing one teacher and injuring several pupils near Breitscheidplatz, in Berlin on June 8, 2022, in Kassel, Germany, June 9, 2022. REUTERS/Riham Alkousaa

Authorities had yet to establish a motive on Thursday for a 29-year-old German-Armenian man who rammed his car into a group of schoolchildren in Berlin, killing a teacher and leaving another fighting for his life, but said he had no known link to terrorism.

Investigators, with the help of a translator, were trying to make sense of the "at times confused statements he was making" during questioning, Berlin's mayor, Franziska Giffey, told RBB inforadio, describing a "dark day in the history of Berlin".

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