German state minister says: 'We are in a state of war'
Germany is in a state of war after a man drove a truck into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market
Reuters
December 20, 2016
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BERLIN:
The interior minister of the German state of Saarland said on Tuesday Germany is in a state of war after a man drove a truck into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring 48, in a suspected terrorist attack.
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"We must say that we are in a state of war, although some people, who always only want to see good, do not want to see this," the minister, Klaus Bouillon, told German broadcaster SR.
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