AKIPRESS.COM - President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov had expressed deep condolences to the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany Joachim Gauck and the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Angela Merkel in connection with an tragedy in Berlin, led numerous victims and injuries.

On behalf of the people and Government of Turkmenistan, President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov expressed words of sincere sympathy and support in this difficult time to families of the dead and wished speedy recovery to the injured.

A truck plowed into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin on Monday evening, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others in what Germany's interior minister said looked like an attack.

Police said on Twitter that they had taken one suspect into custody and that another passenger from the truck had died as it crashed into people gathered around wooden huts serving mulled wine and sausages at the foot of the Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church in the heart of former West Berlin.

The nationality of the suspected driver, who fled the crash scene and was later arrested, was unclear, police said.

German media cited local security sources as saying that there was evidence suggesting the arrested suspect was from Afghanistan or Pakistan and entered Germany in February as a refugee.