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Lorry ploughs into German market, killing one person Berlin Breitscheidplatz: Lorry kills nine at Christmas market
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One person has died and several have been injured as a lorry ploughed into a Christmas market in central Berlin, police say. A lorry has ploughed into a Christmas market in the heart of Berlin, killing nine people and injuring many more, police say.
Police now say they suspect it was a deliberate attack. Video footage from the scene shows stalls knocked over and people lying injured on the ground.Police now say they suspect it was a deliberate attack. Video footage from the scene shows stalls knocked over and people lying injured on the ground.
The market is at Breitscheidplatz, close to the Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church on the Kurfuerstendamm. The driver is believed to be under arrest while the co-driver died.
The market is at Breitscheidplatz, close to the Kurfuerstendamm, the main shopping street in the city's west.
It is situated at the foot of the Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church, which was kept as a bombed-out ruin after World War Two.
'A big noise'
A reporter for the Berliner Morgenpost described a "gruesome scene".A reporter for the Berliner Morgenpost described a "gruesome scene".
Jan Hollitzer, deputy editor in chief of Berliner Morgenpost, told CNN: "I heard a big noise and then I moved on the Christmas market and saw much chaos... many injured people. It was really traumatic."
The Berliner Zeitung reports that police have set up a meeting point for relatives at the scene.
A photographer for the DPA news agency said that armed police were at an entrance to the nearby zoo.
The incident evoked memories of the lorry attack on Bastille Day crowds in the French city of Nice on 14 July, when 86 people were killed. That attack was claimed by so-called Islamic State.
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