Three dead after driver plows into crowd in Austria
At leaast three people have been killed after a 26-year-old man drove a car into a crowd of people in Graz.
At least three people have been killed and several others injured after a man drove his car into crowds in a square in the Austrian city of Graz.
The driver then exited the vehicle after crashing and attacked people with a knife, according to unconfirmed reports.
Police have arrested the driver and have said that initial indications have indicated that the attack wasn’t terror-related.
Part of Graz, Austria’s second largest city, have been sealed off and emergency services have launched a major operation. Sixty ambulances and four helicopters have been sent to the scene.
The square was hosting an event related to the Austrian Formula 1 Grand Prix that will take place this weekend in Spielbeg.
Governor Hermann Schuetzenhoefe told reporters that the suspect arrested was a 26-year-old man, describing him as "deranged".
"There is no explanation, there is no excuse," he said.
“The driver deliberately drove into pedestrians,” Graz mayor Siefried Nagl, a witness to the tragedy, told the Kleine Zeitung. “I myself saw a woman being run over.”
