MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Police in Berlin confirmed on Tuesday that a truck ramming incident that killed at least 12 people in the German capital was intentional.
"Our investigators assume that the truck has been intentionally controlled [directed] into the crowd at the Christmas market on the #Breitscheidplatz," police wrote on Twitter.
The suspected perpetrator of the late Monday truck-ramming into the Christmas market crowd in Berlin has been detained, while another person was found dead inside the vehicle.
I'm just speechless I was walking on the same Christmas market last year. I can't believe the world we live in #prayforberlin 😭🙏🏼❤️ pic.twitter.com/eWJCUw45j8
— nina❄️ (@ninaNB_) 19 декабря 2016 г.
Something Somewhere is going Terribly Wrong
— Varvara Hayrapetyan (@varvara_h) 19 декабря 2016 г.
— 9 Killed in #Berlin #Breitscheidplatz
— Russian envoy killed in #turkey
— 3 shot in #Zurich pic.twitter.com/4Hbn78vd3C
Now in Berlin. I am very worried. #Berlin #ChristmasMarket #Breitscheidplatz pic.twitter.com/mWF5ga6dDi
— Christine Elsaesser (@ChrisElsaesser) 19 декабря 2016 г.
Germany’s Interior minister Thomas de Maiziere said the incident may have been an act of terrorism. A similar conclusion was expressed in a statement by US National Security Council spokesman Ned Price.
