Austrian man drives into crowd before stabbing spree
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At least three people have been killed and dozens injured in the Austrian city of Graz where a man deliberately drove his van into a crowd and then reportedly went on to stab people.
Some of 34 injured are in critical condition, Austrian Wiener Zeitung reports. Other sources put the number of those injured at up to 50. Witnesses of the event told ORF broadcaster that a man drove his SUV at around 100 kph into the crowd at random.
When the vehicle stopped, the driver went out wielding a knife. He then started stabbing people near-by, according to Wiener Zeitung. A man, a woman and a seven-year-old boy are among the dead.
Witnesses recounted how the man drove his vehicle into crowds apparently at random, sending pedestrians and cyclists crashing into the windscreen and rolling over the bonnet.
The mayor of Graz, Siegfried Nagl, was riding his Vespa only metres away from the car as it screamed down Zweiglgasse and said he heard a "loud bang" behind him.
He described seeing the vehicle overtake a bus at "extremely high speed" and hit a man, who died at the scene.
Mr Nagl said: "At first I thought it was an accident and the driver would stop, but he carried on purposefully and had deliberately killed the man."
Besides, Conchita happened last year, so..
