Three people are dead and up to 20 people have been injured after a car hit pedestrians in Australia's second-largest city of Melbourne.
Police said the car was deliberately driven into city centre crowds just before 2pm on Friday, local time.
Acting Commander Stuart Bateson said a man has been arrested and the situation was now "contained".
Mr Bateson said that the incident is believed to have been connected to a stabbing earlier in the day and not terror-related.
He added: "There is no further threat to the public at this stage."
Ambulance Victoria said that several of those being treated had serious injuries and Royal Children's Hospital said in a statement that they were treating four children from the scene.
There were unconfirmed reports of shots being fired before the man was arrested and local media said the car had been driven erratically before the incident.
Rebecca Russo told Australian news outlet Fairfax that she had seen three people hit by a maroon car as it came speeding up the pedestrian-only stretch of Bourke Street Mall.
"We were just standing on Bourke Street, and we heard a bit of a crash coming from the Mall.
"I saw a maroon car driving up the pedestrian path on the Flinders Street side.
"People were running out of the way, they were going very very fast. I saw him hit a few people.
"I saw bodies flying into the air."
Another witness told Sky News Australia: "There was just all this noise and mayhem and then all of a sudden police flying everywhere and just bodies lying all over the ground."
Former Victorian police commissioner Christine Nixon told ABC Radio Melbourne that the car missed her by a metre and then, amid the confusion, she returned to the job she knew.
"I just stood there for 15 or 20 minutes directing traffic. No one disobeyed my instructions," she said.
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