2 killed as car ploughs into crowd in Germany

Two people were killed and three others were seriously injured on Monday when a car drove into a central pedestrian zone of the eastern German city of Leipzig, Mayor Burkhard Jung said, the latest in a spate of such incidents in recent years in Germany.

Police arrested the driver, identifying him as a 33-year-old man with German citizenship. They said there was no further danger.

"We are mourning two deaths, currently three seriously injured people, and many others who were injured," Jung told journalists at a media briefing on Monday evening, according to Leipziger Volkszeitung.

Germany has witnessed a series of car-ramming and stabbing incidents in recent years, some of which involved religious or political motivations and some carried out by people with mental health issues.