Four people have been killed and about 30 injured in an attack by a delivery van on pedestrians in Muenster, Germany. According to the German police, the driver committed suicide afterwards.
The attack took place near the Kiepenkerl statue in the old town of Germany. The driver is said to have acted alone.
The area has been cordoned off by police and the public has been requested to avoid the city centre of Muenster.
The incident took place exactly one year after a similar attack in Stockholm, Sweden. At the time, a perpetrator drove a hijacked truck into a crowd along the busy Drottninggatan Street before crashing into a department store.
The Stockholm attack killed five people and left 14 seriously injured, with Swedes and foreign tourists among the victims. The attacker was arrested the same day following a massive manhunt. He was identified as a rejected asylum-seeker from Uzbekistan who had joined Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) a few days earlier.
