australia say a vehicle has been driven into a crowd of people in central melbourne witnesses say a white s.u.v. hit pedestrians at a crowded intersection on thursday afternoon that area was packed with people doing christmas shopping authorities say up to nineteen people are injured some thirteen are receiving treatment in hospital right now the driver of the car and a passenger in it have been arrested police are investigating whether this incident is terror related. for the very latest let s go live now to correspondent peter herrmann in melbourne dieter do you have any background for us about this attack what other details are out there right now. but not so many details coming up the problem is that the police did not give any unit further information so far it happened next at sixteen thirty zero four thirty pm local time and as you said that s most probably the busiest time of the day the car rental of the destinations