Tributes have been left near the scene where five people were killed when a driver hit pedestrians at high speed in the Germany city of Trier.

German police said that a man who drove a vehicle at high speed through a pedestrian zone in the southwestern city of Trier, killing five people including a nine-month-old baby and seriously injuring more than a dozen, has started talking to them.

A man drove a car at high speed through a pedestrian zone in the south-western German city of Trier on Tuesday, killing five people – including a nine-month-old child, and seriously injuring many more, officials said.

A car drove at high speed into a pedestrian zone in the southwestern German city of Trier, killing at least two people and seriously injuring 15 others before being stopped by police, officials said.

Two people were killed and several injured in the southwestern German city of Trier when a car drove into a pedestrian zone, police said. Trier police tweeted that the driver had been arrested and the vehicle impounded.