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A British man has been arrested after several pedestrians and a seven-week-old baby were injured as a car mounted a pavement in Brit tourist hotspot of Marbella.

The black Audi mounted the pavement near Puerto Banus’s Ocean Club on one of the club’s busiest days of the year.

Police have closed off part of nearby Marbella’s Golden Mile where the hit-and-run driver crashed near a five-star hotel a couple of miles from the Ocean Club after fleeing the scene.

Local media sources say the individual was drunk at the time of the crash. after reports of them "displaying symptoms of intoxication".

Nine people were injured - six pedestrians and three people travelling in one of the cars hit by the Audi Q7.

Six were taken to hospital. One suffered a broken leg, another had a fractured pelvis and a third arrived unconscious in hospital and is undergoing tests.

Their nationalities have not been revealed.

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Local media reports claim four of the injured were in the vehicle at the time it collided, while another three were pedestrians walking down the street.

One of several men said to have fled the car after it was “intercepted” by police on the Golden Mile is understood to have been arrested.

It is reported the vehicle failed to stop for a civil guard check between 9 and 9:15pm this evening.

The car involved was a black Audi which was still at the crash scene at 10pm local time last night as traffic police diverted cars elsewhere.

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A well-informed police source last night said: “A man of British origin believed to have been driving under the influence of alcohol has been arrested.

“There is no evidence this was in any way terrorism-related.

“Three pedestrians were injured at the scene of the original incident. There were casualties at the car crash scene as well, including a young baby, but none are believed to be serious.”

Local news site Sevilla report seven people were injured in total.

Three of those were hit in the Lola Flores avenue.

The nationality of all passengers inside the car was not immediately clear.

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Local social media sites carried pictures of an injured man in shorts lying on the ground, with one social media user commenting: “A car has just sped along the seafront by the Ocean Club in Puerto Banus and has run over a lot of people.

“The car has fled the scene.”

A spokesman for the Ocean Club, where most revellers are Brits, said they were not aware of the incident and it hadn’t happened inside the club.

A nearby worker said: “I’ve heard the man they’ve arrested got into a row over a girl and may have driven deliberately at the pedestrians that were injured.”

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The black Audi the detainee was driving was a write-off.

It was not clear last night if Spanish police were still hunting anyone else in connection with the incident, although it was initially believed several men had been spotted running from the Audi after it crashed.

The Ocean Club was today celebrating its annual Champagne party, at which revellers often end up spraying each other with expensive bottles of bubbly.

The event normally attracts celebs and top footballers.