Truck plows into Berlin Christmas market
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What we know -*Anis Amri - suspect of driving a truck through a Berlin market on Monday has been killed in a police shoot-out in Milan.*Italian interior minister Marco Minniti said - "The man killed was without a shadow of doubt Anis Amri"*Amri was stopped by police at around 0300 (0200GMT) and asked for identification. He pulled a gun and shot one of the policemen, wounding him and was then in turn shot dead by police.*A judicial source told Reuters that police had a tip off that Amri might be in the Milan area and that additional patrols had been sent out to look for him.
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The circumstances of Monday's deadly truck crash at a Christmas market in Berlin is still unclear, a senior German official said, dismissing as speculation reports that the lorry could have been hijacked by militants.
"The sequence of events point to either an accident or an attack," Berlin State Interior Minister Andreas Geisel said.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a statement it was still unclear exactly what had happened. Security officials are trying to secure the site and find those responsible, he said.
(Reporting by Michael Nienaber; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
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The nationality of the suspected truck driver who ploughed into a Christmas market in Berlin is still unclear, a police spokesman said.
The suspect, who fled the crash scene and was later arrested, was being interrogated by officers, police spokesman Thomas Neuendorf told reporters.
He added that the crashed truck had a Polish license plate and that German officials were in contact with Polish authorities.
(Reporting by Michael Nienaber; Editing by Paul Carrel)
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The circumstances of Monday's deadly truck crash at a Christmas market in Berlin is still unclear, a senior German official said, dismissing as speculation reports that the truck could have been hijacked by militants.
REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski
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Mulled wine, Christmas cheer precedes carnage in Berlin
Reuters IndiaThe Berlin evening air was cool, the mulled wine warm and festive spirits high. Then, suddenly, chaos: A truck ploughed into the Christmas market, making no obvious attempt to stop, and smashing revellers in its path. -
A candle is burning on a German national flag near the site where a truck ploughed through a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market on Breitscheidplatz square near the fashionable Kurfuerstendamm avenue in the west of Berlin, Germany, December 20, 2016 REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
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UPDATE: Police said that the man found dead in the truck was a Polish citizen but added he was not in control of the vehicle. The nationality of the suspected driver, who fled the crash scene and was later arrested, was unclear, they said.
German media cited local security sources as saying that there was evidence suggesting the arrested suspect was from Afghanistan or Pakistan and had entered Germany in February as a refugee. -
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday condemned the attack at a Christmas market in Berlin, linking the attack to "Islamist terrorists" before German police officials had said who was responsible.
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SLIDESHOW: Photos from the scene
Parts of a Christmas market decoration stick in the windscreen of the truck. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
Rescue workers stand at the scene. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
A tow truck operates at the scene. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
Candles and flowers are seen near the site. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
Covered dead bodies lie on the ground of the Christmas market. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski
A general view shows the site where the truck ploughed through the crowd at a Christmas market. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski1 of 6
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