At least 12 people have been killed by a truck driving into a Christmas market in Berlin. The attack is being called an act of terror, and the driver of the truck has been identified as a 23-year-old asylum seeker from Pakistan. While investigating the attack, police have raided a hanger at an airport that is being used as a refugee camp.
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German police special forces have raided a refugee centre in Berlin following the truck crash in a crowded Berlin Christmas market, which they now suspect was a planned attack and not an accident.
At least 12 people were killed and up to 50 injured after the truck ploughed into a Christmas market outside the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the German capital on Monday night (19 December).
A suspect was arrested 2km (1.24mi) from the scene and is being interrogated. Berlin Police have said the deadly incident near the famous Zoo station is a suspected terrorist attack. A Polish national was found dead in the truck. Police have ruled him out as the driver of the truck when it ploughed into the crowd.
German media reports citing local security sources say there is evidence the arrested suspect is a 23-year-old asylum seeker from Pakistan. There has been no official confimartion.
Police raided a hangar early on Tuesday morning at Berlin’s defunct Tempelhof airport, which now houses Berlin’s biggest refugee accommodation centre, according to German magazine Focus.
“Our investigators are working on the assumption that the truck was intentionally driven into the crowd at the Christmas market on Breitscheidplatz,” police said on Twitter. “All police measures concerning the suspected terror attack at Breitscheidplatz are being taken with great speed and the necessary care.”
Via IBT