Killed, 20 Hurt After Car Strikes Pedestrians in Melbourne

Police request that people avoid the area.

It is alleged that he attacked the man with a burning bible.

According to another, Meg Watson, the vehicle mounted the kerb “at pace” and struck pedestrians.

The 26-year-old Gargasoulas was known to police and had been released on bail last weekend, following assault charges, the Herald Sun reported, citing Victoria Police.

“The police came and he started speeding down [the street]”, Vekios said.

“There was all this noise and then we saw a dark red auto coming towards us”. Then we saw they had a blanket over him.

Several victims were seen being treated by paramedics on the footpath along Bourke Street.

It aimed randomly at people, leaving a man and a woman in their 30s dead, as well as another adult and a child aged about 10.

Two adults and a child died after being struck by the vehicle, Mr Ashton said, and a fourth person died in a hospital on Friday night.

The driver has a history of mental health and drug abuse issues, and has an extensive record of domestic violence, Ashton told reporters.

Gargasoulas attacked Gavin Wilson (pictured) on Wednesday night, thrusting a burning Bible in his face and punching him before stealing Wilson’s auto.

Police called off the pursuit over concerns of public safety, just outside the CBD.

A baby being pushed in a pram was among four people killed when a driver deliberately ran over pedestrians in a busy street in central Melbourne. Gargasoulas was filmed hanging out the driver’s window and abusing passersby.

Former Victorian police chief Christine Nixon was in Bourke St and was nearly hit by the auto and, after seeing the pram on the ground, helped the distraught mother nearby who could not find her child. The driver was arrested following the incident, said police, who added that the scene was secure.

Deputy Commissioner Andrew Crisp told the Nine Network on Saturday police hoped to interview the accused man on Saturday, as he recovers in hospital from a non- life-threatening gunshot injury to his arm. “The situation is now contained”, a police statement said. “I knew it was him”. “I was at a restaurant on Little Bourke Street and a lot of people were leaving the tables outside and running away, towards Lonsdale Street. I saw bodies flying into the air”.

“I bawled out crying when they announced that baby died”.