MADRID: Authorities in the city of Marbella Selatan said they had ruled out terrorism as a motive for a driver hijacking a car to the sidewalk full of outside restaurants and injuring at least 10 people Monday.
While most of the injured were seen in a local hospital, two people had to be taken to larger facilities in Malaga, the provincial capital, including a woman with a serious injury, a national police said in a statement.
The car driver, a 30-year-old Spanish man, was arrested on the spot, he added.
Online video from the accident scene, one of the main roads at Coastal Resort City, showed an ambulance and police officer while the waiter cleaned or helped people on the ground after the car hit the pedestrian sidewalk.
The incident occurred in the afternoon when the area was full of lunch customers, said Raul Morote, whose family had several restaurants in the popular Miguel Cano Avenue.
“The car is zig-zambing and sweeps everything,” said Morote to the Associated Press.
He said he saw an emergency crew attending around a dozen people, many of them with blood covered their legs.
In 2017, extremist Islamist cells killed 16 people and injured 140 others in two consecutive attacks by encouraging vehicles into the groups of observers in Barcelona and the nearest cambrils coastal city.