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A6 WORLD NEWS
Wednesday 2 december 2020

5 dead, many injured after German man drives car into crowd

By DAVID RISING walk next to a car with Trier
Associated Press license plates. The authen-
BERLIN (AP) — A man zig- ticity of the video could
zagged an SUV at high not immediately be veri-
speed through a pedes- fied and it was taken down
trian zone in the southwest- shortly after police tweeted
ern German city of Trier on a request that people do
Tuesday, killing five people, not share photos and vid-
including a 9-month-old eos of the scene.
child, and seriously injuring Footage from the scene
more than a dozen, offi- showed people outside a
cials said. shop apparently helping
The driver, identified as a someone on the ground
51-year-old German man lying among scattered de-
born in Trier, was arrested bris.
at the scene and the ve- Rhineland-Palatinate state
hicle was impounded, Trier governor Malu Dreyer,
police said. who comes from Trier, con-
The suspect, whose name demned the attack as a
was not released in line “brutal act.”
with German privacy laws, “It was a really, really terri-
had no fixed address and A street is blocked by the police in Trier, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. Associated Press ble day for my hometown,”
had been living in recent Dreyer told reporters after
days in the Land Rover that The suspect had also con- city, shop, and now they Police were called shortly visiting the scene.
a friend had loaned him, sumed a “not insignificant” are dead.” before 2 p.m. with reports Chancellor Angela Merkel’s
which was used in the at- quantity of alcohol before Four people were still in life- of the attack. spokesman, Steffen Seibert,
tack, said prosecutor Peter the incident and was well threatening danger in the Lewentz commended se- tweeted that the incident
Fritzen, who was heading above the legal limit, he hospital and five others suf- curity forces on their reac- was “shocking.”
the investigation. added. fered serious injuries, while tion, saying that they had “Our thoughts are with the
He was being interrogated Mayor Wolfram Leibe, who another six had less serious located the car, which had relatives of those killed and
by police and was to un- was brought to tears during injuries, state Interior Min- stopped at the side of the with the numerous injured,
dergo a psychiatric exami- the day talking about the ister Roger Lewentz said. street, and taken the sus- and with everyone current-
nation, Fritzen said, adding horrific scene, said it was Police later said one of the pect into custody within ly on duty caring for them,”
that a doctor had recently difficult to come to grips injured succumbed, but four minutes of receiving he said.
reached the preliminary with what had happened. provided no further details. the first call. Trier is about 200 kilometers
conclusion the man could “I can’t understand how The others killed were The driver, who was alone (120 miles) west of Frank-
be suffering from mental ill- someone gets the idea to identified as a 25-year-old in the car, resisted arrest furt, near the border with
ness. drive through the city cen- woman and a 45-year-old but was overpowered by Luxembourg. The city of
“We have no indication ter with an SUV to kill peo- man from Trier; the baby’s police, authorities said. about 110,000 people is
that there was any kind of ple,” he said. “Kill people — mother was among those In a video posted by a lo- known for its Roman gate,
a terrorist, political or re- a baby, 9 months old to a hospitalized. Police said the cal media outlet purport- the Porta Nigra, which is
ligious motive that could woman 72 years old; what oldest victim was aged 73. edly showing the arrest, po- near the scene of the inci-
have played a role,” he did these people do? They “This incident has shaken all lice could be seen pinning dent, and as the birthplace
told reporters. just wanted to go to the of Germany,” Lewentz said. a man down on the side- of Karl Marx.q
Animal attacks taking their toll in Kashmir

animals. According to offi- serious head injury. are approaching human
cial data, at least 67 peo- Last year, Showkat Ahmed settlements in search of
ple have been killed and Khatana, a 50-year-old no- food and shelter, leading
940 others injured in the mad, was killed while trying to a sharp increase in at-
past five years in attacks by to save his younger brother tacks.
wild animals in the famed from a black bear attack Naqash said that previ-
Kashmir Valley, a vast col- near their home in the Har- ously, black bears would
lection of alpine forests, wan area in the outskirts of usually go into hiberna-
connected wetlands and the region’s main city, Sri- tion during the winter. “But
waterways known as much nagar. His brother was in- now they’re active even
for its idyllic vistas as for its jured in the attack. in deep, harsh winters and
decades-long armed con- Nestled between mountain prowl throughout the year,”
flict between Indian troops peaks and plateaus, Kash- he said.
and rebels. mir has witnessed a rapid The conflict has also inten-
The Himalayan black bear change in how people are sified because the wildlife
is at the heart of this trou- using the land. population has increased
A black bear yawns at its enclosure at the Dachigam National ble. Experts say over 80% of Vast paddy fields have as animal poaching has
Park on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, the deaths and maulings been converted into mostly almost stopped due to
Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. are due to attacks by black apple orchards. New neigh- the tense security situation
Associated Press bears. borhoods have popped and the presence of Indian
By MUKHTAR KHAN trolled Kashmir, another In August, a black bear up around wetlands and troops in forest areas.
Associated Press conflict is silently taking its pounced on Manzoor Ah- forest areas. Deforestation Bears have easy access
SRINAGAR, India (AP) toll on the Himalayan re- mad Dar at his vegetable and climate change have to food from the kitchen
— Amid the long-raging gion’s residents: the con- farm. added to woes. waste of the armed forces’
deadly strife in Indian-con- flict between man and wild He is still recovering from a In turn, experts say, animals camps.q