Eight ⁠people were ⁠injured on Saturday when ⁠a car drove into pedestrians in the centre of the northern Italian city of Modena, police and the city’s mayor said.

Police said they ‌arrested the driver, a man in his thirties, and there was no further danger.

Among the injured, four people are in a serious condition, the city mayor, Massimo Mezzetti, told broadcaster RaiNews24.

The driver ⁠is an Italian national born in Bergamo, of North African ‌origin, and a resident of the Modena area, the mayor added.

“It seems [the driver] deliberately ‌drove onto the sidewalk, hitting several people and ⁠crashing into ⁠a shop window. He then got out of his car and ‌brandished a knife,” Mezzetti said.

One man who tried to stop the ‌driver suffered ‌minor injuries, the mayor said.