Trier mayor says driver went on ‘rampage’

Trier Mayor Wolfram Leibe tells regional broadcaster SWR that a driver who killed at least two people after running his car through a pedestrian shopping area had gone on “a rampage.”

He says there are 15 injuries.

There is still no word from police on a possible motive, but some press reports in Germany call it a “possible ramming attack.”

Footage from the scene broadcast on NTV shows several police vans and other emergency vehicles parked on a wide shopping street in Trier, a large section of which appeared to have been cleared.

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Shoppers are seen huddling outside stores festooned with Christmas decorations, while sirens can be heard in the distance.

Although the incident has not been confirmed as an attack, it brought back memories of the 2016 truck rampage at a Berlin Christmas market that left 12 people dead. The driver, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker, was a supporter of the Islamic State jihadist group.

— with AFP