The truck collided with the market outside the capital's well known Christmas showcase at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.
AP Television footage demonstrated an expansive Scania truck with its windshield crushed out on the walkway close by the market, with a swarm of ambulances close-by. A vast Christmas tree with a gold star on top was toppled over close-by in the road.
Witness Mike Fox told The Associated Press at the scene that the extensive truck missed him by just around three meters as it crashed into the market, tearing through tables and wooden stands.
"It was certainly consider," said the vacationer from Birmingham, England.
He said he inhabited who seemed to have broken appendages, and that others were caught under Christmas stands.
In a brief overhaul on Twitter, police said they were all the while exploring whether the episode was a mishap or an assault.
Police and protect laborers swarmed the scene after the episode blocking access to the market itself, and firetrucks and ambulances zoomed by.
Officials here in the U.S. say it bears similarities to the recent terror attack in Nice, France, and is what terror groups have been calling for their followers to do.
German police have recently rounded up a series of people for planning attacks on Christmas markets, and even detained last week a 12-year-old Iraqi boy for attempting to set off a nail bomb in one of them.
Many in Germany have been fearful of a rise in terrorism since the country took in more than a million migrants and refugees last year, mostly fleeing conflict in the Mideast.
German prosecutors were already investigating a 12-year-old boy who allegedly attempted to set off a nail bomb at a Christmas market in the southern city of Ludwigshafen last week.
The German-born son of Iraqi parents is alleged to have tried to set off the device at the Christmas market on Nov. 26, and again outside city hall on Dec. 5, Focus magazine reported, citing security sources.
In the second failed attempt, a passer-by spotted the backpack containing the device and reported it to authorities. Inside they found a glass jar packed with firecrackers with nails taped to it, Focus reported.
Police said it would have burned but would not have exploded.
Stephan Meyer, the parliamentary spokesman on security issues for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc, said the boy apparently had turned rapidly to Islamic extremism.
“This shows how quickly the radicalization of a young person, a child, can take place,” he said.
The attack in Berlin called to mind the brutal July terrorist assault in Nice, France, that saw 86 people killed and hundreds injured by an Algerian member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS.)
In the Nice attack, officials said Mohamed Lahouaiyej Bouhlel deliberately drove a 19-ton truck into thick crowds on the French Riviera celebrating the country’s independence day.
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