He’s been arrested. No description.
“There was no braking, there was no slowing down. He went straight through the intersection. So whether it was targeted or whether he’s had heart attack, or was drunk, I don’t know.
“He probably hit about 15 to 20 pedestrians. The car stopped because of just, I think, the amount of pedestrians that it had hit …. All you could hear was, ‘Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang’.
He described the vehicle as a white Suzuki Vitara.
Another witness, David, told ABC radio: “I heard the engine rev and I heard the first thump and I turned around… I just saw it [the vehicle] ploughing through pedestrians as everyone was crossing the road and then crashing into the tram stop.”
Police are continuing to urge Melburnians to avoid the area. The Swanston Street bridge is now closed to traffic. Train commuters have been urged to avoid Flinders Street station.
Victoria police have asked anybody with vision of the incident or its aftermath to upload that footage to a cloud.
Those damn Christian conservatives are at it again, I see.
/sarc.
They’re Methodist. Has to be.
They have hostile Amish in Oz? A quick guess, motive unknown.
It’s the damn Irish by the buy if they were in traffic on bicycles I would say tuff
So…Australian gun control doesn’t stop bad people intent on killing….hmmmm
Possibly a New Australian unfamiliar with driving etiquette vis a vis pedestrians in intersections.
The police are calling this attack as purely a mental health issue and not terrorism.
He’s an Australian citizen of Afghan descent who was known to police but only for minor offenses.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/21/asia/melbourne-car-pedestrians-crash/index.html
Wonder what his mental illness might be –
Islam?
A Reuters articles with the same title included the following words:
“but pictures taken at the scene and posted on social media showed a bearded man in a flannel shirt”
I clicked through to the article and *POOF* it was gone.
“We plow deep while others sleep.”
If there’s no description of the perp then its a muzzie.
They need an New York Italian guy to say: OK… everybody on the terrorist watch list, we´re gonna bash yer doors down and put you and yer families on a leaky boat pointed at the middle of the ocean!
Just reported……an Afgan immigrant.
BTW, BFH – IMHO that video of the New Yorker talking about the Terrorist Watch List should be on a featured video list!
Was he on the wrong side of the road? Maybe he’s a new arrival, unfamiliar with their driving habits.
Mental Heath Issue Down Under. Afgan imported for diversity creates medical health crisis in Australia. It must have something to do with Lone Wolf Loneliness Syndrome during Christmas time.
Wrong! He’s “Asian,” not muslim. Y’all are so rude. Isn’t that the same “mental” problem the terrorists have in England? They probably should quarantine and send the illegals back to “Asia”.
..And the other “man”, just plain ol’ man you see, had a bag full of knives. Yep, another outbreak of vehicular jihad, err I mean a plain ol’ “man” “known to police” with “mental health issues”.
Apparently, Australian leaders go to even greater lengths than the UK does to try and protect their musloid jihadi killers. Tripping all over themselves.
“A 24-year-old man seen filming the incident, which occurred at 4.30pm local time, was also arrested. Patton said it was unknown what his relationship was, if any, to the driver, or if he was involved in the incident. He was searched and was found to be in possession of a bag containing knives.”
“Five people were seriously injured after an attack.”
“Damn those guns. They should be completely banned.”
“They were run over by an Afghan with a car.”
“Oh. We need to spend more on mental health issues.”