Wall Street Journal: Several Killed as Truck Rams Into Small Crowd in Münster, Germany. More than 30 people wounded in incident, as police urge locals to stay away from city center.
By Bojan Pancevski Updated April 7, 2018 11:44 a.m. ET 55 COMMENTS
BERLIN—Several people were killed and more than 30 wounded after a man drove a small truck into a group of people in the center of the western German city of Münster on Saturday.
The driver, who hasn’t been identified, shot himself after ramming the vehicle into a huddle of people in front of the Grosser Kiepenkerl restaurant in the historic center of the city, a police spokesman said.
A mass police operation is under way as police and paramedics, including helicopter units, from the wider area of North-Rhine Westphalia were being deployed to the crime scene.
“We cannot speculate about the motive at this stage but it is clear that the man who committed suicide drove a light truck into a larger group of people today,” a Münster police spokesman said.
People should avoid the city center in order for rescue operations to proceed, the regional police said in a series of tweets. “There are dead and wounded, please avoid the area,” the police wrote.
Germany has been on high terror alert for nearly two years after a series of terrorist attacks. The country was last hit by a truck attack when a rejected Tunisian asylum seeker rammed a stolen truck into a Berlin Christmas market in December 2016.
“There has been a continuous, latent danger of an attack in the whole of Germany. Now it has sadly hit North-Rhine Westphalia, where we have so far been fortunate enough to be able to foil planned attacks and prevent assassinations,” the head of a regional police union, Erich Rettinghouse, told local media.
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