Car runs into crowd in Leipzig, Germany, injuring several people

Several people have been injured after a driver rammed a car into a pedestrian shopping street in Leipzig, Germany on Monday, according to authorities.

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Saxony police said an operation is currently underway in Leipzig’s city center after a car struck several people on the prominent pedestrian shopping street of Grimmaische Strasse and fled the scene.

In a brief news release Monday afternoon, police said several people were injured but did not provide an exact number.

The driver who plowed the vehicle into the crowded street has been arrested “and is no longer considered a threat,” Saxony police said in German on social media.

A large number of police officers are on the scene responding to the incident emergency authorities have declared as “a mass casualty,” according to the news release.

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