Five people were killed and at least 15 arrested after Myanmar security forces in a car rammed into an anti-coup protest on Sunday morning in Yangon, local news portal Myanmar Now reported.

A US Capitol police officer was killed and a second injured Friday after a vehicle rammed through security and crashed into a barrier at the Washington complex, forcing it into lockdown less than three months after a mob assault on Congress.

Ten people were injured on Monday after a car ploughed into a carnival parade in the western German town of Volkmarsen

Six German tourists were killed on Sunday when a suspected drunk driver crashed into a group of people in a town in northern Italy, police said.

Police detained a 50-year-old German man early on Tuesday on suspicion of ramming his car into a crowd of people in the northwestern German town of Bottrop, injuring four, in what authorities say may have been a xenophobic attack.

A man drove into a crowd of patrons gathered outside a bar in the southern city of Nimes early Friday, slightly wounding two before hitting a security barrier and being arrested, witnesses and local officials said.

A 63-year-old resident was killed and three other people were hospitalised after a car mounted a pavement and hit pedestrians in the World Cup host city of Sochi, police said on Wednesday, but they said there was no suggestion it was intentional.

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian who tried to ram his car into them in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Israeli military said.

A man drove a van into a group of people sitting outside a popular restaurant in the old city centre of Muenster in western Germany on Saturday, killing several of them before taking his own life, police said.

A 58-year-old man tried to commit suicide on Christmas Eve by ramming his car into the headquarters of Germany's Social Democratic Party in Berlin, police said on Monday.

Counting of votes for 110 seats of house of representative and 220 of state assemblies under proportional representation has concluded in Nepal.

A man deliberately ran his car into a group of students outside a high school near Toulouse in southern France on Friday, injuring three people, two of them seriously, police sources said.