Three killed and 34 injured as ‘knife-wielding’ driver ploughs into crowd

Three people have been killed and 34 injured after a man drove a car into a crowd of people at high-speed in a busy shopping street. The green SUV was reportedly going about 62mph along Herrengasse in Austria’s second biggest city Graz and hit a cyclist and another person before striking the crowd. The motorist then got out of the car and attacked passers-by with a knife before he could be subdued, according to the Kleine Zeitung newspaper.

I had a friend who was there and she saw people flying through the air. She saw bodies lying there, it was absolute chaos and mayhem.

Dr Sea Rotmann, who was nearby, told Sky News

Doctors on the scene attempted to save the lives of at least one of the victims, but nothing could be done, it was reported. A seven-year-old boy and a woman were thought to be among the dead and the suspected driver has been arrested. The governor of Graz, Hermann Schuetzenhoefer, described him as a “deranged” lone assassin and said the lunchtime attack was deliberate. The suspect was a 26-year-old Austrian of Bosnian origin and Mr Schuetzenhoefer said he was “mentally disorientated” and acting alone.

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