An Australian student who witnessed a truck plough through a Christmas market in Berlin has described how there were ‘blood and bodies everywhere’. At least 12 people were killed and 50 injured in the suspected terrorist attack outside the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the German capital.Trisha O’Neill was just metres away Trisha O’Neill was sitting
just metres away from the huge black truck as it came cruising into Kurfürstendamm market at an estimated 40mph. ‘All of a sudden there was a big boom and the people in front me jumped on top of me,’ Ms O’Neill told ABC .

‘I just saw this huge black truck speeding through the markets crushing so many people and then all the lights went out and everything was destroyed. ‘I could hear screaming and then we all froze. Then suddenly people started to move and lift all the wreckage off people, trying to help whoever was there. ‘There was blood and bodies everywhere.’ Afterwards she described how people, including women and children, appeared not to be moving. The driver who rammed a truck into a crowded Christmas market in the heart of Berlin killing at least 12 people did so intentionally, police said. Almost 50 people were injured, some seriously, in the incident, which Berlin Police said was a suspected terrorist attack.

The authorities had previously said that nine people were killed when the vehicle tore through tables and wooden stands outside the popular market at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. German media cited local security sources as saying that there was
evidence suggesting the arrested suspect was from Afghanistan or Pakistan and had entered Germany in February as a refugee. The attack came late on Monday as tourists and locals were enjoying a traditional pre-Christmas evening out near Berlin’s Zoo station.

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