5 hurt after car ploughs into pedestrians in Berlin

Berlin, July 26 (IANS) Five people were injured on Sunday after a car swerved off a road and ploughed into pedestrians outside a train station in Berlin, the media reported.

The incident took place in Hardenbergplatz, outside the Zoological Garden railway station, the the Metro daily quoted the German DPA news agency as saying in a report.

Berlin’s fire department said on Twitter that some of the pedestrians suffered serious injuries, and that a rescue helicopter was deployed to help.

Further details were not immediately available.

–IANS

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