Three dead, 20 injured after vehicle crashes into crowd: German police
Posted April 7, 2018 8:26 am.
Last Updated April 7, 2018 11:47 am.
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BERLIN, GERMANY (NEWS 1130) – Police in the western German city of Muenster say a vehicle has crashed into a crowd there, killing at least two people and the driver and injuring as many as 20 others. Police had previously reported three people had been killed.
The German news agency dpa has quoted police as saying the driver of that car in Muenster has killed himself.
A top German security official says there is no indication of an Islamic extremist motive in the deadly van crash in the German city of Muenster but officials are investigating all possibilities.
Herbert Reul, the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state, where Muenster is located, said the driver of the van that crashed Saturday afternoon into a crowd outside a popular bar was a German citizen. He stressed the investigation is at an early stage but said “at the moment, nothing speaks for there being any Islamist background.”
Police tweeted Saturday afternoon that residents should “avoid the area near the Kiepenkerl pub” where a large-scale police operation is underway. Kiepenkerl is a popular bar in the city’s historic downtown area.
A spokeswoman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel says “our thoughts are with the victims and their families” who were killed and injured when a vehicle crashed into a crowd in the western German city of Muenster.
Spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer on Twitter called the crash “terrible news.”
