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Ryan Fahey

Car crashes into crowds in Berlin with 'dead bodies all over the place'

A car has been driven into a crowd of people in Germany with at least one dead and 30 injured.

The small Renault car first smashed into members of the public on the corner of Rankestrasse in Berlin before ploughing into a shop window in Charlottenburg.

Nothing is yet known about the driver, but he has been arrested, Mirror.co.uk reports.

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One image said to be from the scene shows piles of chairs and tables destroyed in the crash.

Another photo showed a car parked in a shop window.

Multiple people have been injured after a vehicle smashed into a crowd at a church (Scott R Gill /Twitter)

Doctor Who and Dancing on Ice star John Barrowman, who witnessed the incident, told his Twitter followers: "We think we have witnessed a terrorist attack here in Berlin, we’re not sure, there’s a lot of people, dead bodies all over the place, we’ve seen a car that came down the road and ended up in a storefront covering three city blocks, it’s pretty horrific. #berlin."

In a video, Mr Barrowman described the situation as "really bad" and said he hid behind a tree to protect himself in case of another attack.

Describing the scene, he said there was a huge emergency response and said he could see a dead person laying in the middle of the street.

In another update 15 minutes later, he said he saw "multiple fatalities".

German police have confirmed the suspect is now in custody.

It's still unclear whether the crash was an intentional act or a traffic accident.

German police confirmed the suspect is male.

They told Tages Spiegel: "We do not yet know whether it was an intentional act or a traffic accident.

"We arrested the driver and are clarifying the matter."

A spokesperson for the German capital's fire service told Reuters around 30 people were injured.

"A man is believed to have driven into a group of people. It is not yet known whether it was an accident or a deliberate act," police said, adding that he was being held at the scene.

The incident took place near the scene of a fatal attack in 2016 when Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist links, hijacked a truck, killed the driver and then plowed it into a crowded western Berlin Christmas market, killing 11 more people and injuring dozens of others.

The 24-year-old had been asked to show his identity documents by police before pulling out a pistol who then returned fire hitting the suspect in the chest.

Security officials later confirmed "without any shadow of a doubt" that the dead man is Amri after identifying him using his fingerprints.

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