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ビクトリア州警察の報道官が記者会見で明らかにしたところによれば、男はアフガニスタン出身の３２歳ですでにオーストラリア国籍を取得しており、麻薬依存症、精神障害を病んでいる。
現時点ではテロ事件との関連は証拠づけられていない。
Police and emergency services attend the scene of an incident involving a vehicle on Flinders Street, as seen from Swanson Street, in Melbourne, Australia December 21, 2017.
Members of the public stand behind police tape after Australian police said on Thursday they have arrested the driver of a vehicle that ploughed into pedestrians at a crowded intersection near the Flinders Street train station in central Melbourne, Australia December 21, 2017.
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© AFP 2023 / Mal Fairclough
Police and emergency personnel work at the scene of where a car ran over pedestrians in Flinders Street in Melbourne on December 21, 2017.
The car ploughed into a crowd in Australia's second-largest city on December 21, injuring at least a dozen people, some of them seriously, officials said.
The car ploughed into a crowd in Australia's second-largest city on December 21, injuring at least a dozen people, some of them seriously, officials said.
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© AP Photo / Australian Broadcast Corp.
In this photo made video from the Australian Broadcasting Corp., a white SUV vehicle is stopped after allegedly striking pedestrians, Thursday, Dec. 21, 20217, in Melbourne, Australia. Local media say over a dozen people have been injured after a car drove into pedestrians on a sidewalk in central Melbourne.
Police and emergency services attend the scene of an incident involving a vehicle on Flinders Street, as seen from Swanson Street, in Melbourne, Australia December 21, 2017.
Members of the public stand behind police tape after Australian police said on Thursday they have arrested the driver of a vehicle that ploughed into pedestrians at a crowded intersection near the Flinders Street train station in central Melbourne, Australia December 21, 2017.
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© AFP 2023 / Mal Fairclough
Police and emergency personnel work at the scene of where a car ran over pedestrians in Flinders Street in Melbourne on December 21, 2017.
The car ploughed into a crowd in Australia's second-largest city on December 21, injuring at least a dozen people, some of them seriously, officials said.
The car ploughed into a crowd in Australia's second-largest city on December 21, injuring at least a dozen people, some of them seriously, officials said.
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© AP Photo / Australian Broadcast Corp.
In this photo made video from the Australian Broadcasting Corp., a white SUV vehicle is stopped after allegedly striking pedestrians, Thursday, Dec. 21, 20217, in Melbourne, Australia. Local media say over a dozen people have been injured after a car drove into pedestrians on a sidewalk in central Melbourne.
２１日午前、メルボルンの中心で白いZuki 4X4のジープが交差点を渡る歩行者に向かって猛スピードで突っ込んだ。これにより１９人が負傷。そのうち数人は重体。警察によれば、ドライバーの行為は過失ではなく、故意だが、今のところ動機ははっきりしていない。警察はドライバーの他にもう1人を拘束している。
目撃者の証言によれば、ジープのスピードはおよそ時速100キロで、赤信号を完全に無視し、減速しないまま歩行者に突っ込んでいる。
ＡＢＣテレビのインタビューに答えた目撃者のジョン氏は車に衝突した被害者の体が空中に舞い上がり、事故の模様は悲惨だったと語っている。
