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Berlin lorry crash was terrorist attack, Merkel confirms
By EUobserver
The lorry that killed 12 people and injured 48 at a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday was a "terrorist attack", German chancellor Angela Merkel has said. She added that an asylum seeker was the likely culprit. She said in a TV address that Germany would "find the strength to live our lives the way we want to live, open and free".