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		</div><p>German investigators are searching for the killer or killers involved in the attack on a crowded Christmas market in Berlin after a man arrested soon after the rampage was released due to lack of evidence and the Islamic State group claimed responsibility.</p>
<p>Police in the capital said they had received 508 tips about Monday&#8217;s attack as of Tuesday night, but it was not clear whether prosecutors had any concrete leads.</p>
<p>Twelve people were killed and 48 others injured when a lorry was driven into the crowds at the market next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the centre of the city.</p>
<p>Shortly afterwards, a Pakistani man who had gone to Germany as an asylum-seeker, was detained based on a description from witnesses of a suspect who jumped from the truck and fled.</p>
<p>However, he was freed on Tuesday after prosecutors were unable to find any evidence linking him to the attack.</p>
<p>The claim of responsibility carried on IS&#8217;s Amaq news agency on Tuesday described the man seen fleeing from the truck as <i>&#8220;a soldier of the Islamic State&#8221;</i> who <i>&#8220;carried out the attack in response to calls for targeting citizens of the Crusader coalition&#8221;.</i></p>
<p>Germany&#8217;s top prosecutor, Peter Frank, told reporters before the claim that the attack was reminiscent of July&#8217;s deadly truck rampage in Nice in the south of France and appeared to follow instructions published by IS.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know for sure whether it was one or several perpetrators,&#8221;</i> he said. <i>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know for sure whether he, or they, had support.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Berlin Mayor Michael Mueller said on Wednesday that it was &#8220;good to see that Berliners aren&#8217;t being intimidated&#8221;.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any need to be afraid,&#8221;</i> he told ZDF television. <i>&#8220;The police presence has been significantly heightened &#8230; and of course other measures taken to find the perpetrator quickly.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mr Mueller argued that there are limits to increasing security, given the number of public spaces and events.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;It wouldn&#8217;t be our free and open life any more if we escalated security measures so much that people worry about going anywhere, that there are strict entry checks,&#8221;</i> he said. <i>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want that. It must be appropriate and goal-oriented.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Referring to security measures, he added: <i>&#8220;A lot has happened, and more certainly will.&#8221;</i></p>
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