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posted by n1 on Tuesday December 20 2016, @01:22AM   Printer-friendly

BBC reports:

A lorry has ploughed into a busy Christmas market in the heart of Berlin, killing nine people and injuring many more, police say. Police say they suspect it was a deliberate attack. Video shows stalls knocked over and people lying injured. A suspicious person has been arrested nearby, while a passenger was found dead, police say. The market is at Breitscheidplatz, close to the Kurfuerstendamm, the main shopping street in the city's west. Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, tweeted to say: "We are in mourning for the dead and hope that the many injured can get help."

There are now reports from local police that 12 people have been confirmed killed in the attack.

https://twitter.com/polizeiberlin/status/810940347006197760


Reuters reports:

A man stormed into a Zurich mosque on Monday evening and opened fire on people praying, injuring three, Swiss police said.

They said they had collected evidence inside the building and would make more details available on Tuesday. They declined to comment on the potential motive.

Two of the three men -- aged 30, 35 and 56 -- were seriously injured in the attack shortly after 5:30 p.m. local time (1630 GMT) near the main train station in Switzerland's financial capital, Zurich police said.


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday December 20 2016, @05:40AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday December 20 2016, @05:40AM (#443567) Journal

    There really is no reason not to combine the stories, and it has nothing to do with the alt-right:

    http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/2016/12/day_of_deadly_violence_casts_dark_cloud_on_holiday_week [bostonherald.com]

    The world is on edge today over the threat of new copycat attacks on holiday targets, after a truck plowed into revelers at a Christmas market in Germany last night in what is being viewed as an act of terrorism.

    The semitrailer that rammed through one of Berlin’s storied Christmas displays outside a church capped a bloody day of horror across Europe and the Middle East, after an off-duty Turkish cop assassinated the Russian ambassador in Ankara as cameras rolled, and a suspect dressed in black opened fire into a mosque with praying worshippers in Zurich, Switzerland, wounding three.

    I submitted just the truck part and when I saw a similar article in Google News I suggested to my fellow editors to throw the Zurich attack in.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday December 20 2016, @06:29AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday December 20 2016, @06:29AM (#443581) Journal

    That kind of my point: not similar? What is next, Robot Santa from Futurama? Less editorial presumption, please.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @07:35AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @07:35AM (#443602)

      That post, from a presumptuous bitch?