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Four dead including driver after vehicle hits crowd in Germany: ministry

  (Agence France-Presse)
Berlin
Sat, April 7, 2018 Published on Apr. 7, 2018 Published on 2018-04-07T23:32:22+07:00

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Four dead including driver after vehicle hits crowd in Germany: ministry Police block a street near a place where a man drove a van into a group of people sitting outside a popular restaurant in the old city centre of Muenster, Germany, April 7 2018. Muenster Germany, April 7, 2018. (Reuters/Staff)

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t least four people were dead Saturday after a vehicle ploughed into pedestrians in the German city of Muenster, the interior ministry said, quoted by news agency DPA.

A ministry spokeswoman was quoted as saying that the toll included the driver. Local police had said earlier that he "shot himself" after driving into the crowd and leaving about 30 people injured.

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