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Melbourne car crash - live updates: Car ploughs in to crowd of pedestrians in 'deliberate act', leaving many injured Melbourne car crash - live updates: Car ploughs in to crowd of pedestrians in 'deliberate act', leaving many injured
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Up to 15 people have been injured after a car crashed into pedestrians in what police said was a "deliberate act" outside a major train station in Australia. A car has been driven into pedestrians outside a major train station in Australia in what police have called "a deliberate act".
Police have arrested the driver of the white Suzuki SUV and another man who was in the vehicle with him outside Flinders Street station in Melbourne.  Up to 14 people have been injured, several critically, outside Flinders Street station in Melbourne. 
They said the two men have not been charged and their motivations are currently unknown.  Police have arrested the driver of the white Suzuki SUV and another man who was in the vehicle.
The Victoria State ambulance service said it had taken 13 people to hospital, including a pre-school child with a serious head injury, while two people were being treated at the scene. "We believe based on what we have seen that it is a deliberate act," Victorian Police commander Russell Barrett said. "The motivations are unknown."
"The driver of the vehicle and a second man have been arrested and are in police custody," police said in a statement, adding that a crime scene had been established. The Victoria State ambulance service said it had taken 13 people to hospital, including a pre-school child with a serious head injury.
They said they had they had "saturated the... area in the vicinity of Flinders, Elizabeth and Swanston streets to ensure community safety."  Police said the motive for the incident was not known, but it had chilling echoes of several attacks by Islamist militants in various parts of the world over the past few years.
In January, four people were killed and more than 20 injured when a man deliberately drove into pedestrians at a spot just a few hundred metres away from Thursday's incident, though that was not terrorism-related.
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