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.