A German man drove a van into a group of people sitting outside a restaurant in the old city centre of Muenster in western Germany on Saturday, killing two of them before shooting himself dead, police and state officials said. Herbert Reul, interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, home to Muenster, told German television the suspect was a German citizen and there was "no indication of an Islamist background". ET], a vehicle drove into the outside area of the restaurant ... three people were killed, 20 injured, and six of those seriously injured." Merkel 'deeply shaken'The incident came one year to the day after a truck attack in Stockholm that killed five people. It also evoked memories of a December 2016 truck attack in Berlin that killed 12.

Source: CBC News April 07, 2018 18:19 UTC