34 injured as car rams crowd in Austrian city

VIENNA
Three people including a four year-old boy
were killed and 34 others injured Saturday
when a mentally unbalanced man drove a
4x4 into a pedestrian streets thronging
with shoppers in the southern Austrian city
of Graz police said.

Witnesses said the green SUV was travelling
at over  100 kilometres (60mies) per hours
when it hurttled onto Herrengasse,one of
the main shopping streets in the Alpin
country's second largest city ,the local
APA news agency reported..

The 26 year old Austrian driver has been
detained and described as a"mentally un-
baabnced  man ,according to governor
Hermann Schuetzenhoefer.,

The other victims who died were 24 year
old  woman and a man ,28 and among the
injured ,six have been hospitalised in a
critical condition officials said,

Regional police chief Josef Klammiger
ruled out a terrorist motive
"We can say clearly  and without  doubt
that it is isolated  incident without political
or extremist motivation he said .

During his rampage, the driver briefly got
out of the vehicle weilding a knife and
wounded two people before continuing
on his course,the head of the investigation
Kurt Kemeter said.
 AFP