BERLIN, Dec 20 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel
spoke by telephone to U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday
about the suspected attack on a Christmas market in Berlin which
killed 12 people on Monday, the German government said.
"President Obama assured the German Chancellor that the
United States would support Germany in the investigation," said
Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert in a statement.
(Reporting by Michelle Martin; Writing by Madeline Chambers)