A truck drove into a Berlin Christmas market on Monday night, killing 12 people and wounding dozens more in what German Chancellor Angela Merkel called "a cruel attack."

"The truck was deliberately driven into the people who wanted to spend a peaceful and happy evening," Germany's interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, told reporters on Tuesday.

German investigators are treating the incident as an act of terrorism. The White House on Monday called it a terrorist attack, and Merkel said German authorities were investigating under the assumption that terrorism was involved.

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