🔶 Several injured after deliberate driving of a car into a crowd near Hanover

Deliberately driving a car into a crowd in the city of “Neustadt am Rübenberge” near Hanover caused at least four people to be injured. According to a police spokesperson, the injured were taken to hospital and the condition of some of them has been reported as critical.

The cause and motive behind the incident, which reports say occurred in the late hours of Monday, October 26 (4 Aban), are not yet known. Police said that there is currently no indication that the incident was terrorist in nature.

According to police, a blue BMW car at around 11:30 p.m. near the location where a routine traffic inspection was being carried out suddenly drove toward a small group of people present. Police officers who were at the scene fired at the vehicle in an effort to stop it. Following the shooting, suspects—whose number was initially unclear—got out of the car and fled on foot.

Police said that so far they have identified and arrested three people at the address where the owner of the suspect vehicle used in the incident lives.