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Terrifying dashcam video captured the moment a speeding lorry ploughed into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 and injuring dozens.

The first footage of the terror attack claimed by ISIS shows the lorry racing through a junction in the brightly-decorated city centre and terrified revellers running through the streets just moments later.

The video, obtained by German newspaper Bild, was captured by a taxi driver as he approached a red light while picking up customers outside the market at the Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church.

The stolen lorry is off camera when it ploughs into wooden stalls at the busy market - where thousands of locals and tourists were enjoying mulled wine, sausages and other traditional fare in the run-up to Christmas.

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The terror is obvious just seconds later as market-goers flee for their lives, running into traffic in a bid to escape.

The taxi turns the corner a short time later, but the road is blocked and the lorry is just metres in front of it after coming to a stop.

The person whose dashcam recorded the footage told Bild that people ran by screaming just seconds after the truck had passed, and they quickly realised something terrible had happened.

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Twelve people were killed and nearly 50 were injured when the lorry was deliberately driven into the market in the latest act of terrorism to strike Europe.

Police across Europe are still hunting the suspected driver, Anis Amri, as Germany reels from its worst attack in decades.

Earlier Thursday investigators said fingerprints from the 24-year-old Tunisian suspect have been found inside the truck and they assume the migrant was at the wheel.

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Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said: "We can report today that we have new information that the suspect is with high probability really the perpetrator.

"In the cab, in the driving cabin, fingerprints were found and there is additional evidence that supports this."

Frauke Koehler, a spokeswoman for the federal prosecutor's office, added: "At this point in the investigation, we assume Anis Amri drove the truck."

Shortly after the attack Amri allegedly visited a mosque in Berlin's Moabit district, Germany's public broadcaster, RBB, reported.

The mosque was searched on Thursday along with a number of other places in Germany, but no arrests have been made.

Amri had been identified by security agencies as a potential threat and rejected for asylum, but authorities had not managed to deport him because of missing identity documents.

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In Tunisia, two of Amri's brothers, Walid and Abdelkader, said they feared the failed asylum-seeker may have been radicalised by radical Islamists while he spent almost four years behind bars in Italy.

Abdelkader said: "He doesn't represent us or our family.

"He went into prison with one mentality and when he came out he had a totally different mentality."

Bild cited a counter-terrorism investigator as saying it was clear last spring that Amri was looking for accomplices for an attack and was interested in weapons.

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The paper said preliminary proceedings had been opened against him in March based on information he was planning a robbery to get money to buy automatic weapons and "possibly carry out an attack".

In mid-2016, he spoke to two Islamic State fighters and Tunisian authorities listened in on their conversation before informing German authorities.

Amri also offered himself as a suicide attacker on known Islamist chat sites, Bild said.

Police started looking for him after finding an identity document under the driver's seat of the truck.

The perpetrator lost both his wallet and mobile phone while running away from the attack site, RBB reported.

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ISIS has claimed responsibility for Monday's attack.

One of the 12 dead was the Polish driver from whom the truck had been hijacked.

Lukasz Urban, 37, is said to have fought with his killer before the crash.

His body, stabbed and shot, was found in the cab after the lorry mowed down pedestrians.

Ringed by concrete bollards, the Berlin market reopened on Thursday, with candles and flowers laid in tribute to the victims.