Car kills 5, injures several in Trier pedestrian zone
By DW
06 December 2020 |
11:00 am
At least five people, including a 9-month-old baby, were killed in Trier after a car drove into a pedestrian zone in a "zigzag" pattern. Authorities said the driver, a 51-year-old man, has been arrested.
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