One person was killed and two injured Saturday when a man rammed a car into pedestrians in the southern German city of Heidelberg, said police, adding that it did not appear to be a terror attack. After the crash, the driver, a 35-year-old German man, fled on foot armed with a knife on a busy city centre street but was shot and wounded by police.
Police said a 73-three-year-old German man who suffered serious injuries died later in hospital. A statement said a 32-year-old Austrian and a Bosnian woman aged 29 were injured by the car.
"At the current stage of the investigation there is nothing to suggest that it was a terrorist" act, the police said.
Officers had tracked down the driver with help from witnesses and opened fire on the suspect who was "seriously wounded", police said. They said there was "no additional information on the state of health" of the driver.
German daily Bild reported that the suspect was suffering from psychiatric troubles, but authorities have made no comment on that claim.
The police cordoned off the area and a helicopter hovered overhead on Saturday evening.
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