germany: nine killed, 50 wounded after truck plows into crowded christmas market in berlin

This is a developing story: German police believe the incident targeting the market in the center of Berlin was a terror attack.

The Associated Press Dec 19, 2016 10:16 PM
0comments   Zen Subscribe

Police and emergency workers at the site of a truck plowing at a Christmas market in Berlin, Germany, December 19, 2016. Fabrizio Bensch, Reuters
A truck plowed into a crowd at a Christmas market in the German capital Berlin on Monday evening, killing at least nine person and injuring at least 50 others, the police said.
Local media, citing police at the scene, said first indications pointed to an attack on the market, situated near the fashionable Kurfuerstendamm avenue and at the foot of the ruined Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church that was kept as a ruin after World War Two. Bild is reporting that the attacker is on the run.

The incident evoked memories of an attack in France in July when Tunisian-born Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove a 19-tonne truck along the beach front, mowing down people who had gathered to watch the fireworks on Bastille Day, killing 86 people.
Police shot the driver dead in the Nice attack claimed by Islamic State.

Police and emergency workers at the site of a truck plowing at a Christmas market in Berlin, Germany, December 19, 2016.Fabrizio Bensch, Reuters
Television pictures from Berlin showed the truck standing amid debris by small wooden stalls that make up the “Christkindlmarkt” of which there are several in Berlin at this time of year. Police cars and ambulances converged on the scene.
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/1.760126