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Several Dead in Münster, Germany, Amid Reports of Van Crashing Into Crowd | Several Dead in Münster, Germany, Amid Reports of Van Crashing Into Crowd |
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Several people were killed and many others injured on Saturday in Münster, in western Germany, after a van crashed into a group of people in the heart of the old city, according to the police and news media reports. | |
A spokeswoman for the Münster police told Die Welt, a newspaper, that the driver of the van killed himself after the crash. | |
The police said on Twitter that they had closed the area and had urged people to leave in order to allow access for emergency services. | |
The crash occurred outside the Kiepenkerl, a restaurant on a cobble-stoned street in the center of the city that is popular with locals and tourists, the police said. It is not in a pedestrian zone, but has wide sidewalks where people had been sitting outside on a sunny, spring afternoon, news reports said. |