A 73-year-old man dies of his injuries while knife-wielding driver is treated for gunshot wound
THIS is the tense standoff between police and a knife-wielding man whose car ploughed into three people in Germany.
A shot rings out as cops bring down the driver after chasing him down the street in Heidelberg between Stuttgart and Frankfurt.
His rental car which had license plates registered to Hamburg smashed into crowds at around 4pm local time, killing a 73-year-old man.
Police said two other people, a 32-year-old Austrian man and a 29-year-old woman from Bosnia and Herzegovina, received hospital treatment but were later discharged.
The alleged driver, a 35-year-old German national, was taken to hospital with a serious gunshot wound.
His motive remains unclear, but local media speculated that he may have been mentally disturbed.
Police were quick to say they did not believe it was a terror attack.
"There are no indications of a terrorist background," spokesman Heidelberg David Faulhaber said.
Other video posted online shows the chaotic aftermath of the attack on Saturday afternoon.
Local media say the driver revved his engine at a red light before accelerating into a crowded spot near a bakery in Bismarckplatz.
The car went on to smash into a pillar.
German authorities are on high alert after a failed Tunisian asylum-seeker drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin on December 19, killing 12 people.
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