Car Ploughs Through Crowds In Australia’s Melbourne

A car ploughed into a crowd in Australia's second-largest city of Melbourne on Thursday, injuring at least a dozen people, some of them seriously.

Victoria state police said they had arrested the driver of the car after it "collided with a number of pedestrians" in downtown Melbourne at a busy intersection just before 5 pm local time. Police did not immediately say whether the driver had acted deliberately.

Citing witnesses, Sky said a white Suzuki SUV with two men inside drove into the crowd, with no signs the vehicle made an effort to slow down, but later crashed into a bollard. In a tweet, police appealed to members of the public to upload any images they might have of the incident to a cloud address to help assist with their investigation.

The incident came months after a car mowed down pedestrians in Melbourne's busiest mall in January, killing six people. The driver, whose case is still being heard in court, had been pursued by police prior to the rampage after he had allegedly stabbed his brother.