[Merged] Terror attack on German Christmas market

Many dead and injured.

UPDATE: POLICE SUSPECT TERROR, SUGGEST MANY DEAD – Semi plows into Berlin Christmas Market

Several dead and 50 injured as truck ploughs into Christmas market in Berlin

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Citing police sources on the ground, German media are reporting that early investigations indicate the incident was likely to be a deliberate attack on tourists and other civilians at the Christmas market.

Recently a 12 yr old tried more than once to plant a nail bomb but was caught and stopped.

A 12 year old German-Iraqi boy suspected of having links to ISIL in Ludwigshafen, Germany, it has been revealed on Friday, attempted to detonate a nail bomb first in a Christmas market and then near to the city’s City Hall.

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On Nov. 26, the boy reportedly set down a backpack containing a bomb he made using fireworks and sparklers in the city’s Christmas market. After the bomb failed to ignite, a passer-by on Dec. 5 noticed the boy hiding a second explosive devise near to the City Hall and informed police. A bomb-disposal team disposed of the bomb. Police reports describing the incident say the boy’s intended bomb was flammable but not explosive. The bag in which it was found was also filled with nails. According to German magazine Focus, which published a report on the attempted bombing, the boy had planned to leave for Syria during the summer of 2016 and is believed by investigators to have been “strongly religiously radicalised” and “instigated” by an as of yet “unknown member” of ISIL. The boy, born in 2004 in Ludwigshafen, is currently being held in a “local youth welfare centre”.

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