{"id":432068,"date":"2026-05-04T17:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/432068\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:19:08","slug":"two-dead-after-car-rams-into-people-in-leipzig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/432068\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead after car rams into people in Leipzig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A car ploughed into people on a street in the eastern German city of Leipzig, leaving at least two dead and several injured, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Leipzig mayor Burkhard Jung confirmed the deaths, adding nothing was known about the motive of the vehicle driver.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver had been arrested and no longer posed a danger.<\/p>\n<p>A \u2060damaged Volkswagen SUV \u200cwith a person on top of the \u2060vehicle was \u200cseen speeding through a pedestrian zone, local broadcaster Radio Leipzig \u2060reported.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcaster cited eyewitnesses as saying \u2060there were several bodies reportedly covered with sheets as well as a stabbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car ploughed into people on a street in the eastern German city of Leipzig, leaving at least&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-432068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}