BREAKING VIDEO: Police, ambulances on scene after truck crashes into #Berlin #Christmas market...

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BREAKING VIDEO: Police, ambulances on scene after truck crashes into #Berlin #Christmas market https://t.co/4nwV9IZB26 #Germany http://pic.twitter.com/skEGB3FQsw

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Until  now, 12 dead & ca. 50 injured, some  of  them  very  heavy ;-(

Different  TV - Channels  reported  more  hours...  terrible

They  guess,  it  was  a  Terror - attack,  but  not  sure  to  this  time...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/19/lorry-ploughs-crowd-christmas-market-berlin/

Twelve dead and 48 injured as truck ploughs into crowd at Christmas market !

    12 dead and 48 injured, some severely, at Berlin market.
    Suspect arrested at Victory Column, man in passenger seat dead
    Co-driver Polish national, suspected driver's nationality unclear
    Police indicate incident is likely to be terror related
    Attack occurred at Breitscheidplatz, outside the landmark  Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
    Everything we know so far....

Germany was the victim of a suspected mass terror attack on Monday night after a lorry ploughed into a busy Christmas market in Berlin.

At least twelve people were killed and 48 were injured, some seriously, after the vehicle mounted the pavement at about 40mph and crashed into them.

The driver, whose nationality is unknown, was reported to have fled but was later said to have been arrested by police. A passenger in the lorry – which came from Poland and may have been hijacked – was later found dead inside. It is believed he may have been the original driver of the truck. German authorities confirmed that the passenger was a police national.

Witnesses of the Berlin attack described scenes of panic and horror as a lorry veered off the street and ploughed into the crowded Christmas market just off the famous shopping street of Kurfürstendamm at around 8pm local time (7pm GMT).

Emma Rushton, a tourist, told CNN: “We were enjoying the Christmas lights and mulled wine. We were ready to get up when we heard a loud bang, To our left we saw Christmas lights torn down and the top of an articulated lorry crashing through the stalls and through people.

“We wanted to get out as soon as possible. We wanted to get to a safe place. In my opinion, it was going at 40mph, there was no sign it was slowing down. It did not feel like an accident. There was no way it could have come off like an accident, it was through the middle of the market. The stall where mulled wine was being served was crushed. I saw people bleeding, lying in the pavement.”