Berlin crash: Dramatic moment suspect cries ‘help, help’ as he’s arrested after ‘ploughing car into crowd killing one’

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THE suspected driver who ploughed into pedestrians outside a Berlin shopping centre killing a teacher has been filmed crying for help as he is arrested. At least six people are in a critical condition and a further three seriously injured after the car hit a crowd in Berlin on Wednesday morning. The suspected driver in today’s Berlin crash has been arrested The silver Renault Clio mounted the pavement in Breitscheidplatz, the German capital’s main shopping centre, just before 10.30am local time (9.30am BST). Video taken in the aftermath shows the suspected driver being led away by police. Chilling video shows a man in a yellow t-shirt and dark-blue tracksuit with yellow trainers being led away. Before he is put in the back of an unmarked police car, he is seen shouting in German: “Help me! Help me!” READ MORE WORLD NEWS JAIL BEATING Caroline Crouch’s husband ATTACKED as he rots in jail for Brit's murder TRAIN TRAGEDY 17 killed in train crash as emergency crews pull passengers from wreckage A bystander filming the arrest retorts: “Why do you need help you’ve just killed, you idiot.” He then calls the alleged driver an “a******e”. Berlin police confirmed they had arrested a 29-year-old German-Armenian man living in Berlin. It is still unclear whether he drove deliberately into the crowd or whether it was an accident. Most read in News VILE ABUSE Harry and Meghan's son Archie targeted by white supremacists in 'terror podcast' GOING NOWHERE Brits face summer travel hell with airport chaos, rail strikes & soaring fuel JAIL BEATING Caroline Crouch’s husband ATTACKED as he rots in jail for Brit's murder HORROR DEATH Worker dies after falling in 2,600F molten iron leaving half of body on floor BT 'SCAM' Urgent warnings as 'scammers posing as BT workers scoping out people's homes' STRUCK OUT Train & Tube chaos to erupt again as 50k walk out in biggest strike in 33 YEARS The unnamed man is still being interrogated by police. Following the crash, the driver is said to have tried to run away before brave passers-by held him down and handed him over to a police officer who happened to be nearby who took him into custody until his colleagues arrived. BILD reports that the man was known to police for prior property crimes. Two teachers were leading a school trip from Hesse in central Germany when the car crashed into them in front of an H&M, according to German reporter Antje Hildebrandt. Police confirmed the car mounted the pavement at the corner of Rankestrasse and Tauentzienstrasse and struck pedestrians before driving onto the road and then back onto the pavement for another 200 metres and crashing into a department store. The crash took place outside the historic Kaiser-Wilhelm Church close to the city’s zoo – opposite the site of 2016’s Christmas market terror attack. Actor John Barrowman who happened to be at the scene at the time of the crash has shared a dramatic video from the crash site. Read More on The Sun LOU-K HERE I’m a lip reader - what Kate sternly said to Prince Louis during his tantrum hats off to her Gemma Collins looks slimmer than ever as she strips to strapless cossie The Doctor Who star tweeted: “We think we have witnessed a terrorist attack here in Berlin we’re not sure there’s a lot of people dead bodies all over the place we’ve seen a car that came down the road and ended up in a storefront covering three city blocks it’s pretty horrific.” In a subsequent video, he said he had seen a “dead body in the middle of the road” and a number of people “walking with limps and injuries”.