German prosecutors have no indication why a 48-year-old man drove a van into a crowd of people in the western city of Munster, killing two and injuring 20 before shooting himself dead inside the van.
“As of now, we don’t have any leads regarding a possible background for the deed,” prosecutor Martin Botzenhardt wrote in a joint statement with police.
“The investigations are being led under high pressure in all possible directions.”
Authorities have identified the two fatalities of Saturday’s crash as a 51-year-old woman from Lueneburg County and a 65-year-old man from Broken County.
The city’s Roman Catholic bishop, Felix Glenn, invited all of Munster’s citizens to a joint Catholic-Lutheran memorial service at the famous Paulus Cathedral on Sunday night.
Local media have identified the perpetrator as a German industrial designer living in Munster who had been suffering from psychological problems, but police would not confirm the details.
All three bodies were taken from the scene in front of the well-known Kiepenkerl pub early on Sunday night.
The silver-grey van was hauled away hours later after explosives experts had thoroughly checked it.
“The van is not at the crime scene any more, all kinds of objects have also been removed, waste of course, as well as evidence that we’ve found on the ground,” police spokeswoman…
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