The suspect's Opel Astra was brought to a halt after hitting a third motorcycle. REUTERS, AP Previous NextAn Iraqi-born man deliberately drove his car into motorcycles along a stretch of Berlin highway, leaving at least one person in life-threatening condition in what German officials said yesterday was a terror attack. "According to the current state of our investigation we assume this was an Islamist-motivated attack,'' Berlin's senator for the interior, Andreas Geisel, said. Six people were injured, three of them severely, when the 30-year-old man allegedly drove into several vehicles, intentionally hitting motorcycles, on Tuesday evening, prosecutors and police said. The crashes at three different locations happened during rush hour on the BAB100 highway shortly before 7pm and led to a complete closure of one of the main traffic arteries of Berlin.

Source: The Standard August 19, 2020 19:07 UTC