Van drives into pedestrians in Germany

[Tchocky]

A van is reported to have driven into pedestrians in the city of Muenster, in western Germany.


A police spokeswoman has said there are "several dead, probably including the suspect".


Local authorities have said about 30 people were injured in the incident, near the Kiepenkerl statue in the old town.


Police asked people to avoid the city centre while they respond to the incident.

https://twitter.com/AP/status/982634343070883840




Early reports are several people killed.


In Nord-Rhein-Westphalia it's a beautiful sunny Saturday. This is heartbreaking.

@Skybird - I hope you and yours are unaffected.

[Buddahaid]

Christ I hate twitter! It's like listening in to the thoughts of insane people rambling.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43683687

[Schroeder]

What can I say... if it had been an accident the police wouldn't advise people to stay away from the area. My condolences to the families of the killed and hope for a speedy recovery of the injured.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

https://twitter.com/AP/status/982634343070883840




Early reports are several people killed.


In Nord-Rhein-Westphalia it's a beautiful sunny Saturday. This is heartbreaking.

@Skybird - I hope you and yours are unaffected.

Thank you, Tchocky, both me and my parents (living on the other side of the city) are fine. this indeed is my hometown.

In fact it was a wonderfuly, sunny beautiful day here, and I did a nice bicycle tour down the most romantic Tecklenburger Land and Osnabrücker Land (where I lived earlier for ten years), towards Osnabrück, and when i returned to Münster eight hours and 120 km later, I only wondered about that helicopter being stationary high in the air and above the city centre, the old town. I had a wonderful day, and here obviously somethign terrible happened. Thats life in a chaotic world.

The police does not report on its findings so far. The appartement of the attacker is beign searched. Huge parts of the old town are sealed off. A suspicious object inside the van is being examined.

Some national papers reported the van driver, a German of German descend, has become psychologically striking (conspicious? attention attracting?) already in the past. A terror strike is not being mentioned.

I know and walk all the places and streets where the amok drive took place. 1500 meters away.

Well, life in a chaotic world. Everything can happen. Have had my share of it in the past, repeatedly. Glad this time the show went on without me.

[Catfish]

^ For whatever reason i thought you were in Berlin.
So no one of yours involved .. good. Rest is bad enough.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Catfish

^ For whatever reason i thought you were in Berlin.
So no one of yours involved .. good. Rest is bad enough.

Berlin, the 80s, was before Osnabrück, the 90s. Since 00 its Münster. The 70s was Lübeck. But by birth I am from Detmold, near were the Romans got their backside spanked: Teutoburger Wald... My preferred land to be in, that Teutoburger Wald region. Very romantic.

Enough details of my biography, else people start to believe they recognize me.

[Catfish]

^ well the Romans never managed to concquer the whole of Germany. But there has been an interesting battle near Goeettingen, in a.d. 236 at Harzhorn. Caesar Maximinus Thrax had a scrap (another german attack), but won this time. Though this was probably the last roman intrusion into 'german territory'.
From then on, Rome was being attacked.

[Onkel Neal]

Sorry to hear that.