Police in Trier said that there were several injured after a car had driven into them in the pedestrian zone in the city. They asked people to avoid the area as emergency services responded.
Several people in a pedestrian zone in the western German city of Trier were struck by a vehicle on Tuesday, local police said.
Details of the incident were unclear, but a police spokesman told the dpa news agency that the driver had been detained, corroborating local reporting.
We have several injured people in the pedestrian zone, who were hit by a car. The car is secured, the driver has been detained, the spokesman said.
Police said several people have been injured and asked locals to avoid the area, while emergency services responded to the incident on the scene.