Several dead after man drives van into restaurant in Germany

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MUENSTER, Germany, April 7 (Reuters) - A man drove a van into a group of people sitting outside a popular restaurant in the old city center of Muenster in western Germany on Saturday, killing at least two of them before shooting himself dead, police said.

The vehicle plowed into people sitting at tables outside the Grosser Kiepenkerl restaurant, which is popular with tourists.

"At 15:27 (1327 GMT), a vehicle drove into the outside area of the restaurant ... three people were killed, 20 injured, and six of those seriously injured," police spokesman Andreas Bode said, adding: "The perpetrator killed himself in the vehicle."

It was not immediately clear whether the perpetrator was among the three killed, or whether his death took the number of dead to four. A police spokeswoman said separately that there were at least three people dead.

A security source said the perpetrator was probably German.

The Sueddeutsche Zeitung said the man was a German with psychological problems who had no terrorist background. The Interior Ministry in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, home to Muenster, would neither confirm nor deny the report.

Name of said German? Is it Reinhard of Abdullah?

An other truck of Islamic peace & love ?

CALU wrote:

An other truck of Islamic peace & love ?

Likely not this time. His name was Jens. Might be a situation like that German pilot who said fuck it and flew his passengers to their final destination.

The weired thing is that he shot himself instantley, you would have though he would have tried to shoot dead all the people he injured in the crash.