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Child included in death roll after driver runs amok in German city

Witnesses said people screamed in panic and some were thrown into the air by the car as it crashed through the shopping zone today.

Police said several people had been killed, having earlier put the death toll at two, with more than 10 injured. The local newspaper, Trierischer Volksfreund, put the death toll at four, including a child, but police did not confirm that figure.

"We have arrested one person, one vehicle has been secured," police said, adding that a 51-year-old German suspect from the Trier area was being questioned, police said.