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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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| A car has been driven into pedestrians outside a major train station in Australia in what police have called "a deliberate act". | A car has been driven into pedestrians outside a major train station in Australia in what police have called "a deliberate act". |
| Up to 14 people have been injured, several critically, outside Flinders Street station in Melbourne. | Up to 14 people have been injured, several critically, outside Flinders Street station in Melbourne. |
| Police have arrested the driver of the white Suzuki SUV and another man who was in the vehicle. | Police have arrested the driver of the white Suzuki SUV and another man who was in the vehicle. |
| "We believe based on what we have seen that it is a deliberate act," Victorian Police commander Russell Barrett said. "The motivations are unknown." | "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 Victoria State ambulance service said it had taken 13 people to hospital, including a pre-school child with a serious head injury. | The Victoria State ambulance service said it had taken 13 people to hospital, including a pre-school child with a serious head injury. |
| 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. | 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. | 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. |
| Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said federal and state police as well as security agencies were working together to secure the scene and investigate the "shocking incident". | |
| "Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and the emergency and health workers who are treating them," Turnbull said in a post on his official Twitter account. | |
| Australia has been on a "high" national threat level since 2015, citing the likelihood of attacks by Australians radicalised in Iraq and Syria. | |
| A staunch ally of the United States and its campaign against Isis in Syria and Iraq, Australia believes more than 100 of its citizens are fighting there. | |
| Additional reporting by agencies | Additional reporting by agencies |