Police stands guard in 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. REUTERS/Leon Kuegeler
BERLIN: The man presumed to have driven a van into a Muenster restaurant on Saturday was a German with psychological problems, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported in its online edition.
The man had no terrorist background, the newspaper added, citing information it had obtained but giving no specific source.
The vehicle ploughed into people sitting at tables outside the Grosser Kiepenkerl restaurant, which is popular with tourists.
"At 15:27 (1327 GMT), a vehicle drove into the outside area of the restaurant ... three people were killed, 20 injured, and six of those seriously injured," a police spokesman said, adding: "The perpetrator killed himself in the vehicle."
