Nine-month-old baby dead after shocking attack in Germany shopping street
<p class="p1">A baby is among five people killed and over a dozen injured after a car drove into Christmas shoppers in the southwestern German city of Trier on Tuesday.</p>
<p class="p1">Trier mayor Wolfram Leibe said the driver, a 51-year-old German man who was arrested by police, had gone “on a rampage”.</p>
<p class="p1">Onlookers described seeing a pram “flying through the air” as the SUV ploughed into pedestrians at intense speed just after 1:30pm local time, leaving a trail of carnage for about a kilometre before coming to a halt.</p>
<p class="p1">Mr Leibe revealed the driver had caused “several deaths and injuries”.</p>
<p class="p1">Tearing up, Mr Leibe recalled the moment he discovered a child’s shoe on the street near the body of a young girl.</p>
<p class="p1">“It’s a horror scene,” he said. “Many people are traumatised. I think this is Trier’s darkest day since World War II.”</p>
<p class="p1">Police said the suspect’s car drove in a zig zag motion through the city centre in what seems to be a deliberate attack.</p>
<p class="p1">The Range Rover stopped near the city’s old Roman gate and the suspect was arrested at the scene after being pinned to the ground by police.</p>
<p class="p1">According to German police, four people were killed including a nine-month-old baby and a local woman, 73.</p>
<p class="p1">The other victims include a 25-year-old woman from Trier and a man, 45, also from Trier.</p>
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<p class="p1">The death toll is currently at five.</p>
<p class="p1">Nine others have been left “seriously injured” with six wounded following the horrifying attack.</p>
<p class="p1">The mother of the baby is one of those being treated in hospital.</p>
<p class="p1">Police spokesman Uwe Konz told AFP it remained unclear what exactly had happened, saying “the background still needs to be clarified”.</p>
<p class="p1">Police later said the man was drunk when he allegedly carried out the attack.</p>
<p class="p1">“There are no indications of a politically motivated background,” police said in a statement.</p>
<p class="p1">Local media has identified the man at Bernd W. who has previously been described as a “strange individual” who is “quick-tempered and sometimes aggressive” according to his neighbours.</p>
<p class="p1">Due to German privacy laws, the alleged attackers full name cannot be published.</p>
