CNA Staff, Dec 1, 2020 / 12:00 pm
A Catholic diocese said Tuesday that it was praying for the dead and injured after a car plowed into pedestrians in the city of Trier in southwest Germany.
CNA Deutsch, CNA's German-language news partner, reported that the Diocese of Trier wrote on its Twitter account Dec. 1: "We pray for the victims and all those affected."
Local police announced shortly after 2 p.m. that a car had hit and injured several people in a pedestrian zone in downtown Trier. In a later update, they said that they had arrested a 51-year-old man from the local area and secured a vehicle.
Roger Lewentz, interior minister of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, confirmed that four people were killed and 15 injured. Media reported that one of the dead was a baby.