Horror after speeding van sends man flying into air as attack leaves three dead

A VIOLENT rampage through a city centre prompted fears of a terror attack after three people were killed.

- Martin Bentham 

The first two victims were found dead in a street in Nottingham shortly after 4am before officers were called to another incident in a nearby road where a van driver had tried to run over three people. A man was then found dead in another city centre road as a huge police investigation began. The suspect has been arrested.

A female witness described seeing a white van near Nottingham's Theatre Royal at around 5.30am. She said the driver saw a police car before speeding up and driving at a man and a woman, hitting both. The witness said the woman was sent onto the kerb and the man into the air with a "huge bang". She said both had survived, although the man was bleeding heavily, and that the van had driven off.

Asked if she thought the collision was deliberate, witness Lynn Haggitt told Channel 4 News: "I don't think I should say that, but to me he went straight into them, he didn't even bother to turn, just went back straight into them." She said that a man appeared to have a head injury.