{"id":355692,"date":"2018-04-07T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fatalities-confirmed-after-vehicle-plows-into-crowd-in-munster-germany\/"},"modified":"2018-04-07T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T17:42:00","slug":"fatalities-confirmed-after-vehicle-plows-into-crowd-in-munster-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fatalities-confirmed-after-vehicle-plows-into-crowd-in-munster-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatalities Confirmed After Vehicle Plows into Crowd in M\u00fcnster, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A van crashed into a crowd of people outside a restaurant in Germany this afternoon &#8211; killing three people and injuring more than 30 others.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are treating the incident, which happened outside the four-star eatery Grosser Kiepenkerl, in M\u00fcnster, as a terror attack &#8211; although this is yet to be officially confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"863\" src=\"http:\/\/redice.tv\/a\/i\/c\/18\/04\/MunsterWreck2.jpg\" width=\"647\"\/><\/p>\n<p>First pictures from the scene show a busy pedestrianised square with a mass of chairs and tables in disarray moments after the smash.<\/p>\n<p>Families previously enjoying food and sunshine close to the Kiepenkerl statue appear scattered; tending to victims and pointing towards the devastation.<\/p>\n<p>One photo shows what appears to be a grey van crashed into the side of a building.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle is reportedly dead.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"610\" src=\"http:\/\/redice.tv\/a\/i\/c\/18\/04\/MunsterWreck.jpg\" width=\"917\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police are in the process of clearing the area and part of the old town is sealed off.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services are on site with helicopters and, according to reports, officers are looking for explosives.<\/p>\n<p>The Rheinische Post said there have been at least three fatalities and multiple injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"443\" src=\"http:\/\/redice.tv\/a\/i\/c\/18\/04\/MunsterPatio.jpg\" width=\"615\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"383\" src=\"http:\/\/redice.tv\/a\/i\/c\/18\/04\/MunsterPatio2.jpg\" width=\"615\"\/><\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Comments<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/breaking-fatalities-confirmed-after-vehicle-plows-into-crowd-in-m%C3%BCnster-germany\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A van crashed into a crowd of people outside a restaurant in Germany this afternoon &#8211; killing three people and injuring more than 30 others. Authorities are treating the incident, which happened outside the four-star eatery Grosser Kiepenkerl, in M\u00fcnster, as a terror attack &#8211; although this is yet to be officially confirmed. First pictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}