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		</div><p>Inaki Ellakuria, a 21-year-old student from Spain, knew immediately that last night&#8217;s truck crash in Berlin was no accident.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I heard the truck crashing against the first stall,&#8221;</i> he tweeted yesterday, only minutes after the vehicle ran over dozens of shoppers at a Christmas market in Berlin.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;It came fast, too fast to be driving off the road accidentally,&#8221;</i> he posted.<br />
His next tweet was chilling: <i>&#8220;It has swept me and ran over both of my legs.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mr Ellakuria was one of the 48 injured in a truck attack on the market &#8211; and his family is grateful he was not among the 12 killed in last night&#8217;s attack near the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin.</p>
<p>He underwent surgery today at a hospital in Berlin for the broken tibia and fibula on his left leg.</p>
<p>He also has broken bones in his right ankle and instep, as well as damage to his hip, but he is recovering well, according to his relatives.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;He&#8217;s come out of surgery and he&#8217;s making good progress,&#8221;</i> his father Juan Jose Ellakuria said over the phone from Berlin, where his parents had travelled this morning from Bilbao in northern Spain.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;He suffered a big shock yesterday and today. Even if he&#8217;s improving, he&#8217;s still affected.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mr Ellakuria, who has been studying economics in Berlin on a scholarship, was passing through the area with two friends when the black truck drove at high speed, running over market stalls and visitors in what German authorities have labelled an <i>&#8220;act of terrorism&#8221;.</i></p>
<p>His two female friends were unhurt and one rang up his family with the news of his injuries.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;It hurts every time I think about it. I didn&#8217;t think I was going to overcome the pain,&#8221;</i> Mr Ellakuria wrote in another tweet.</p>
<p>But he was grateful for the kindness of strangers, thanking them online for the help he received from passers-by.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Those who were not hurt were great with us. Cushions, water, food, blankets, hats, scarfs,&#8221;</i> he wrote.</p>
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