MADRID (AP) – Inaki Ellakuria, a 21-year-old student from Spain, knew immediately that this was no accident.
“I heard the truck crashing against the first stall,” he tweeted Monday, only minutes after the vehicle ran over dozens of shoppers at a Christmas market in Berlin.
“It came fast, too fast to be driving off the road accidentally,” he posted.
His next tweet was chilling: “It has swept me and ran over both of my legs.”
Ellakuria was one of the 48 injured in a truck attack on the market – and his family is grateful he was not among the 12 killed in Monday night’s attack near the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin.