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		</div><p>A man ploughed his car into a crowd of people in western Germany, injuring at least four in what appears to have been an intentional attack against foreigners, authorities said.</p>
<p>The 50-year-old driver of a silver Mercedes first attempted to hit a group of people in the city of Bottrop shortly after midnight, but the pedestrians were able to jump out of the way, Munster police said.</p>
<p>The suspect, a German man, then drove into the centre of Bottrop where he crashed his car into a crowd.</p>
<p>Police said those hit included Syrian and Afghan citizens, and some were seriously injured.</p>
<p>The driver then sped off towards the nearby city of Essen, where he tried and failed to hit people waiting at a bus stop before being arrested by police on suspicion of attempted murder.</p>
<p>The driver, whose name was not released, made anti-foreigner comments during his arrest and there were indications he suffered from mental illness, police said.</p>
<p><em>“The man had the clear intention to kill foreigners,”</em> Herbert Reul, the top security official in North Rhine-Westphalia state, was quoted as saying by the German news agency dpa.</p>
<p>It is not the first time that a vehicle has been used as an apparent weapon in Germany.</p>
<p>In April, a German man drove a van into a crowd in Munster, killing four people and injuring dozens.</p>
<p>The driver, who had sought psychological help in the weeks preceding the attack, then killed himself.</p>
<p>On December 19, 2016, a Tunisian man ploughed a truck into a busy Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people.</p>
<p>The attack was claimed by the Islamic State group. The driver, who fled the scene, was later killed in a shootout with police in Italy.</p>
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