Several killed, at least 50 wounded after truck plows into Berlin Christmas market
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At least 9 people were killed and 50 were wounded after a truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday evening, according to German police.
Berlin police tweeted that "a suspicious person was arrested near #Breitscheidplatz," the site of the incident. Police said they are investigating whether the suspect was the truck driver.
A person who had been in the truck's passenger seat at the time of the incident was killed in the crash, police said.
The video below appeared to show the scene in the aftermath of the incident:
The truck, which apparently belonged to a Polish transportation company, ran into the market outside the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at around 8 p.m. local time on Monday.
A bystander tweeted that "there is no road nearby," indicating she believed that the incident was not an accident.
"People were crushed," she said. "I am safe."
"We were so close and had to run away as people started shouting and running," Chloe Smith, who was at the Christmas market at the time of the incident, told Business Insider. "There were people running everywhere and loads of ambulances."
"If we had been there five minutes earlier, we would have been involved. So scary," she said. "Very shaken up, but we're safe at the hotel now."
Police told German media that the first indications from the investigation into the crash suggest it was a "likely attack." In a tweet, German police urged people to stay indoors and refrain from spreading rumors about the incident.
"What we see here is dramatic," said Berlin's mayor, Michael Müller. "My thoughts are with the families of the dead and injured."
Eighty-six people were killed and over 400 were injured when a truck plowed into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in Nice, France on July 14.
Berlin police tweeted that "a suspicious person was arrested near #Breitscheidplatz," the site of the incident. Police said they are investigating whether the suspect was the truck driver.
A person who had been in the truck's passenger seat at the time of the incident was killed in the crash, police said.
The video below appeared to show the scene in the aftermath of the incident:
The truck, which apparently belonged to a Polish transportation company, ran into the market outside the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at around 8 p.m. local time on Monday.
A bystander tweeted that "there is no road nearby," indicating she believed that the incident was not an accident.
"People were crushed," she said. "I am safe."
"We were so close and had to run away as people started shouting and running," Chloe Smith, who was at the Christmas market at the time of the incident, told Business Insider. "There were people running everywhere and loads of ambulances."
"If we had been there five minutes earlier, we would have been involved. So scary," she said. "Very shaken up, but we're safe at the hotel now."
Police told German media that the first indications from the investigation into the crash suggest it was a "likely attack." In a tweet, German police urged people to stay indoors and refrain from spreading rumors about the incident.
"What we see here is dramatic," said Berlin's mayor, Michael Müller. "My thoughts are with the families of the dead and injured."
Eighty-six people were killed and over 400 were injured when a truck plowed into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in Nice, France on July 14.