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Ryan Fahey

Cologne-Bonn Airport crash: Multiple people injured after man drives into pedestrians

A man has driven into several pedestrians in a parking garage at the Cologne-Bonn Airport in western Germany, police said.

"Several" people have been injured, including two police officers who were hurt because the man - who is thought to have been suffering from a psychiatric condition at the time - resisted arrest.

The man, 57, grabbed a rental vehicle which was left open for cleaning before ramming it into a group of "five or six" people before smashing into a number of other cars, according to a police spokesperson.

Miraculously, nobody's life is in danger, despite the suspect - who is known to police - driving "back and forth" over and over.

Christoph Gilles, for the local police, said: "He rammed several vehicles with a black rental van."

An Audi A5 was smashed with "full force" as the man drove through the barrier system which controlled the car park entrance.

A Kia and a Volvo were also hit, Mr Gilles adds.

The Cologne-Bonn Airport in Germany (daily record)

He was then detained and taken to a hospital in Cologne because there were indications that he was suffering with a psychiatric condition at the time of the incident, police added.

The suspect is going to be admitted to a closed psychiatric ward.

No further details on Friday morning's incident were immediately available.

Local media reported that the man resisted arrested before eventually being overpowered by cops.

"He apparently drove towards several cars and pedestrians, who were able to avoid him," said a police spokesman, quoted by Bild.

The incident happened in the airport's parking area (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

In another similar case last year, a driver killed a teacher and injured 14 students after plouging into them in a vehicular rampage in Berlin.

Footage showed the 29-year-old suspect being led away to a police car, while his silver Renault sat smashed through the front window of a perfume shop.

Officers searched the German-Armenian driver's vehicle and found placards relating to Turkey inside, the Daily Star reports.

An investigator told the German newspaper Bild that the attack was the work of an 'ice-cold killer'.

Workers at the Cologne and Bonn airport earlier this month (Ying Tang/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock)

The newspaper released a picture of the driver being detained, wearing a yellow pullover, jogging trousers and red trainers.

Iris Spranger, Berlin's state interior minister, said: "There are said to have been placards inside (the vehicle) but there was no letter of confession."

The suspect was first detained by bystanders before he was arrested by authorities after his car veered off the road and collided with multiple people.

Captured footage of the aftermath shows badly wounded shoppers laying across the pavement and screams of witnesses can be heard in other videos from the scene.

German newspaper Bild cited an investigator as saying: "(This was) by no means an accident - someone on the rampage, an ice-cold killer."

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