German Chancellor Angela Merkel "mourns the dead" after at least nine people were killed when a truck ploughed through a Christmas market in central Berlin, her spokesman said.
"We mourn the dead and hope that the many people injured can be helped," her spokesman Steffen Seibert tweeted.
Around 50 people were hurt, four of them seriously, police said.
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