A German car run over a number of refugees including a family from Afrin

ARK News: German authorities arrested a 50-year-old man on suspicion of a racist attack, after being run over by a number of people by his car, including a family of Shiye town of Afrin Kurdish and another Afghan.

Four people were injured and one was still in the hospital.

Police said the man hit a number of pedestrians in a busy square in the town of Potrop, northwest of Germany, just after midnight on New Year's Eve.

There were reports that the man had said racist comments when he was arrested.

Police said the driver had earlier tried to run over one of the pedestrians, but he managed to get away from the car, but he managed to get away from the car. Later, a number of people were targeted at a bus station near the city of Essen.

Herbert Riol, the interior minister in North Rhine-Westphalia said that "a German man deliberately hits a group of people in his car, they were made up of a group of foreigners. The man had a clear intention to kill foreigners.

A previous statement from the police and prosecution that "Investigators suspect a deliberate attack that may be related to the views of the driver is hostile to foreigners In addition to the preliminary investigation has clarified the mental state of the driver."

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