At 3:45 p.m. on Monday, a 33-year-old man drove at high speed through a pedestrian zone in Leipzig, Germany.
The vehicle came to rest outside a street café, where about 20 people were hit by the speeding car; two were fatally injured. Three more people are being treated for serious injuries.
"We will do everything in our power to resolve this completely. The full force of the law will be used," said Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer, according to the Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper.
Police and prosecutors are working on the theory that it was a deliberate act, and the incident is initially being investigated as murder and attempted murder. The driver, a German citizen living in Leipzig, was taken into custody at the scene and, according to police, did not resist. He will undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
