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The truck used to plough into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing at least nine people, may have been hijacked, according to the firm which owns it.

The delivery company said the vehicle had left Poland this afternoon before driving to Germany but lost touch with the firm at 4pm local time.

The haulage company is registered in Gdansk, according to local media reports.

The firm's owner said his cousin had been travelling to Berlin in the lorry.

A suspect has been arrested after a truck ploughed through a Christmas market in Berlin at 40mph, killing and injuring shoppers, is on the run, according to reports.

Another suspect is dead, police have revealed.

Police have said at least nine people died when the huge vehicle smashed into booths outside the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the centre of the city.

The truck is believed to have Polish numberplates.

Terrified market-goers have tweeted panicked images from the scene of the incident which comes an hour after the Russian ambassador was shot dead in Ankara.

Around 50 people were injured in the attack as many crushed under its wheels.

The truck is believed to have been doing 40mph when it ploughed into shoppers.

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Video from the scene shows a huge articulated lorry smashed into the middle of the market on Berlin's Breitscheidplatz.

Local police are saying the incident is probably a terror attack and the driver of the truck is believed to be on the run.

According to information from Die Welt, there have been suspicions of a potential attack on Berlin for days.

The incident occurred at about 8pm with the truck coming in from Kantstrasse destroying booths along the way.

Germany's Christmas markets have been feared as a key target for jihadis following a series of other Islamist terror attacks in Germany and elsewhere in Europe this year.

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