Van kills pair in Germany

A MAN and a woman were killed when a German man drove a van into a group of people sitting outside a restaurant in the old city centre of Muenster in western Germany.

Police have identified the two victims as a 51-year-old woman and a 65-year-old man.

Police also confirmed that the man who drove the van shot himself dead in the vehicle.

State Prosecutor Martin Botzenhardt said the investigation so far had led authorities to believe the assailant was “a 48year-old man from Muenster”. There were no leads on a motive.

Twenty people were injured.