Near the main railway station in Passau, situated in the south of Germany, a man hit a group of five people by car on Saturday at around 3.30 pm. Police detained the driver on the spot, not excluding the possibility that he did so intentionally, TASR reports, referring to the German media.
Police spokesman for Bild said there was also a man’s 40-year-old wife and his five-year-old daughter in the five-member group. One person suffered moderate injuries, four people light.
Initial interrogations according to the spokesman indicated that The cause of the tragedy could be a dispute over the childcare. However, it is not yet clear whether a 48-year-old man, who will show before the judge on Sunday, thrust into the people on the sidewalk deliberately. “This cannot be excluded at the moment,” the police said in a statement.
In Germany, there have been several car attacks lately: Last December in the Christmas markets in Magdeburg, where six people were killed, an incident in Munich took place in February this year when a man hit a group of demonstrators by car, fatally injuring a woman and a child, and in March in Mannheim, where two people died.
