UPDATE: Australian Police Say Don’t Suspect Terrorism After Car Plows Into Pedestrians

Driver has history of assault, drug use and mental health issues

Members of the public stand behind police tape after Australian police said they have arrested the driver of a vehicle that ploughed into pedestrians at a crowded intersection near the Flinders Street train station in central Melbourne, Australia Dec. 21, 2017. Reuters/Melanie Burton

MELBOURNE–A car deliberately plowed into pedestrians injuring 19 people at a crowded intersection in the Australian city of Melbourne on Thursday, but police said they did not believe the attack to be terror-related.

In January, four people were killed and more than 20 injured when a man deliberately drove into pedestrians just a few hundred meters away from Thursday’s attack. That too was not a terror attack.