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Three dead, 20 injured after driver deliberately crashes car into pedestrians in Australian city Melbourne

Police and emergency services gather at the scene after a car is believed to have hit pedestrians in Bourke Street Mall in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017

MELBOURNE: A man deliberately drove into pedestrians, killing three and injuring at least 20 in the centre of Australia's second largest city Melbourne on Friday, but police said the lunch-time incident was not terror-related.

Video footage from a witness showed a maroon coloured car driving around in circles in an intersection outside Flinders St railway station in the city's central business district, with the driver hanging his arm out the window.

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