At least three people were killed and about 20 injured in the centre of the Australian Melbourne due to the fact that the car drove into the crowd. On Friday, January 20, Reuters reports, citing local police.
Among the victims is an infant. Earlier it was reported about one killed.
Law enforcement officials told reporters that the driver arrested, he acted intentionally. However, police stressed that it did not believe the incident a terrorist attack. At the present time are the circumstances of the incident.
Eyewitnesses said that before delay ran over pedestrians the driver rammed the police driven them from the car and fired it up. The operation involved about ten security officers.
In Melbourne these days is the Open championship of Australia on tennis, because the town is faced with the influx of tourists, most of them foreign fans.
On January 8 in Jerusalem drove the truck the man made impact on the military, leaving the bus in the popular tourist district of Armon neighborhood. Four were killed, 15 were injured. The person who was driving the truck, neutralized.
December 19, 2016 in Berlin, the Tunisian Anis Amri truck rammed visitors street Christmas market. The victims were 12 people, 48 were wounded. The German authorities acknowledged the incident a terrorist attack. Amri the scene of the attack fled, four days later he was shot dead by Italian police in the city of Sesto San Giovanni (province of Milan).