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1 Killed, 30 Injured As Vehicle Smashes into Shop in Berlin


Wed 08 Jun 2022 | 12:00 PM
Ahmad El-Assasy

A automobile drove into a crowd in Berlin, Germany, killing one person, injuring at least 30 people. According to the Mirror, the vehicle crashed just outside a department store in Rankestrasse in the Charlottenburg neighbourhood. There has been no further information available, and police have declined to comment.

The event occurred near the site of a purposeful crash that killed 11 people and injured dozens more on December 19, 2016 at the western Berlin Christmas market.

Anis Amri, a Tunisian rejected asylum applicant with Islamist ties, carried out the attack by hijacking a vehicle and killing the driver before ploughing into the throng at the festival.

Earlier today, a speeding bus slid off a narrow mountain road and into a ravine in a rural section of southwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 22 passengers, including women and children, according to a government official.

The incident occurred in the Qilla Saifullah district of Balochistan province.

According to Deputy District Administrator Mohammad Qasim, rescuers were still attempting to transport the dead to a nearby hospital. There looked to be no survivors, he said.

The bus appeared to be speeding when it lost control and crashed into a gully, according to witnesses. The weather was fine at the time of the disaster, according to authorities, and police officials were looking into possible technological issues or human mistake.

Abdul Ali, who was riding his motorcycle along the same road at the time, told The Associated Press over the phone that he saw a tiny bus accelerate up, slide, and fall into a ditch.

According to Ali, people from a nearby village alerted authorities, who rushed to the scene after the bus collapsed. He went on to say that he accompanied rescuers in ambulances as they transported dead to the hospital.