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A car ploughed into a crowd in central Melbourne this morning, injuring 14 people, several of them, critically. Police have described as a “deliberate act”.
The SUV hit a large number of pedestrians on the pavement outside a major railway station in the Australian city.
Police said the driver and another man have been arrested after what they said they believed “was a deliberate act”.
One witness told how she heard screams before she saw “people flying everywhere” outside Flinders Street station at around 5pm local time (6am GMT) on Thursday.
Others reported that the white Suzuki SUV, which had two men inside, appeared not to slow down before it crashed into a tram stop.