Baby among five killed after car hits pedestrians in German city – UPDATE

Five people were killed and 14 others injured when a sport utility vehicle drove into the pedestrian zone in the western German city of Trier on Tuesday.

The incident “currently appears to not have a political motive,” said German news agency dpa. The police interrogation is ongoing, with no idea as to what motivated a driver to seemingly randomly target people in the city center, it said.

The dead include a 9-month-old baby. The mother is currently in the hospital. A 73-year-old woman as well as a woman and a man from Trier were also killed in the incident. Police shared that the fifth victim, a 52-year-old woman, died later on Tuesday, dpa said.

The entire incident lasted four minutes and played out on multiple streets in downtown,

the news agency said.

Trier police said in a statement that

the driver, a 51-year-old German from Trier-Saarburg, was arrested.