A man deliberately drove into a street crowded with pedestrians in Australia’s second-largest city on Friday, killing at least three people and injuring 20 others, police said.
Among those killed is a nine-year-old girl who attends the local Bais Rivka school. Her names has not yet been released.
According to Global News, the chaos began in the early afternoon, after a man was seen driving in erratic circles in the middle of a major intersection in downtown Melbourne. The driver then turned onto the Bourke Street Mall, a pedestrian-only road, deliberately colliding with pedestrians before continuing onto a sidewalk and hitting several other people, Victoria state Police Acting Commander Stuart Bateson said.
The man was arrested at the scene and there was no further threat to the public, Bateson said. Police believe the incident is somehow connected to a stabbing that had occurred in the city earlier in the day.
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Australia refused to take in any significant numbers of European Jewish refugees in 1930’s, but took in a bunch of Lebanese in 1980’s. Hence the result.