Police on duty (symbol photo)
Photo: Carsten Rehder/ DPA
A money transporter was attacked in Berlin on Wednesday morning.
A police spokesman for the dpa news agency said four people were believed to have been injured.
The perpetrators are on the run, as the police announced on Twitter.
The robbery is said to have happened at around 11:15 a.m. opposite a Postbank branch on Uhlandstrasse in the Wilmersdorf district.
Further information was initially not available.
The "Bild" newspaper reported shots at the crime scene.
The police initially did not confirm this when asked by SPIEGEL.
Crime scene still cordoned off
The police operation at the scene of the crime is still ongoing and the area has been cordoned off.
The Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe announced on Twitter that bus traffic would be temporarily diverted in both directions between the U Hohenzollernplatz and U Blissestraße/Uhlandstraße stops.
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