Berlin Attack Suspect Shot Dead in Italy

World » EU | December 23, 2016, Friday // 11:43
Bulgaria: Berlin Attack Suspect Shot Dead in Italy Former Air Force Commander and presidential candidate Maj Gen Rumen Radev. File photo, BGNES

Anis Amri, the Tunisian national suspected of crashing a lorry into a Berlin Christmas market on Monday, has been shot dead, FAZ quotes security sources as saying.

Italy's Interior Minister Marco Minniti has confirmed the news in a press conference.

Some media reports suggest he arrived in Milan by taking a train via France.

 

Twelve people died in the attack and forty-eight were injured.

A Europe-wide search was launched after German police released a man that turned out to have been the wrong suspect.

More to follow.

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