Car rams crowd in Leipzig, leaving two dead and dozens injured
Two people were killed and several others injured after a car drove into a crowd in central Leipzig, Qazinform News Agency reports, citing Agenzia Nova.
A tragic incident unfolded in the German city of Leipzig, where a car ploughed into a crowd, leaving two people dead and around 20 others injured, some of them seriously.
According to the German newspaper Leipziger Volkszeitung, local hospitals were placed on alert due to what authorities described as an “incident with multiple casualties.”
🇩🇪 Horrifying scenes from Leipzig, where a car rammed into a crowd, killing two people
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The footage shows first responders providing emergency aid to the victims.
Police have detained the alleged perpetrator. pic.twitter.com/BwoX8BucpS
A police spokesperson stated that the exact circumstances of the incident remain unclear, including the precise number of injured and the severity of their conditions.
Leipzig Multiple Hit-and-Run: Two dead, two seriously injured, and about 20 lightly injured after a driver rammed an SUV into pedestrians on Grimmaische Straße in central Leipzig, Germany.
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The suspect fled but was detained; motive unknown, no further threat. https://t.co/WG0jsG4LNz pic.twitter.com/D6ANXECf1K
Preliminary reports indicate that the incident occurred on Grimmaische Strasse, a busy shopping street linking Augustusplatz - home to the Gewandhaus - with the city’s central market square. The area is also located near Leipzig University and St. Nicholas Church.
Earlier, Qazinform News Agency reported on another tragedy abroad: the death toll from a powerful explosion on the Pan-American Highway in Colombia’s Cauca Department rose to 20. The April 25 attack was described as one of the most brutal assaults on civilians in recent decades in the region. Authorities declared three days of mourning. The blast left a massive crater of about 200 cubic meters on the highway, though traffic was expected to resume within hours.
