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Berlin attack: German police storm refugee centre in airport hangar, say reports Berlin attack: German police storm refugee centre in airport hangar, say reports
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German police special forces have stormed a hangar at Berlin's defunct Tempelhof airport, which now houses Berlin's biggest refugee accommodation centre, according to German magazine Focus. German police special forces have stormed a hangar at Berlin's defunct Tempelhof airport, which now houses Berlin's biggest refugee accommodation centre, according to German magazine Focus.
A truck ploughed into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market on Monday evening, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others. It comes hours after a truck ploughed into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market on Monday evening, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others.
Police have said they suspect the incident was a terrorist attack. Police have detained a migrant in relation to the incident, which they are now investigating as a "suspected terror attack" that deliberately intended to cause harm.
German media cited local security sources as saying that there was evidence suggesting the arrested suspect was from Afghanistan or Pakistan and had entered Germany as a refugee. “Our investigators assume that the truck was deliberately steered into the crowd at the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz,” police said on Twitter. 
“All police measures related to the suspected terrorist attack... are progressing at full steam and with the necessary diligence.”
They believe the man arrived in Germany in Ferbruary as a refugee from either Afghanistan or Pakistan, the German newswire DPA reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed security sources.