A teacher has been killed and 14 schoolchildren are amongst those injured after a car hit a crowd on a busy Berlin street.

The group was on a school trip to Berlin from the state of Hesse, while a second teacher was seriously hurt.

Police say the driver, a 29-year-old man, was arrested at the scene.

Emergency officials said it was unclear whether the incident, which happened shortly was intentional or an accident.

It took place in the heart of western Berlin, on one of its busiest shopping streets.

According to reports, the woman who died has been identified as a schoolteacher who was on a trip with a class of teenagers from the central state of Hesse.

“There are seriously injured people among the more than a dozen injured,” police spokesperson Thilo Cablitz said.

The driver has dual German and Armenian citizenship and lives in Berlin. Earlier reports that he had left a note in his car were denied by officials.

Witnesses described seeing a silver Renault Clio veering into a crowd of people on the pavement near Berlin’s busy Kurfürstendamm shopping avenue, before driving back on to the road and crashing into a shop window.

Some 130 emergency workers went to the scene and a body lay in the middle of the road, covered in blankets.

Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey said it was too early to know if the area had been chosen deliberately, but she said: “It’s a situation where you think, for God’s sake, not again!”

BBC/Adebukola Aluko

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