Anis Amri, the Tunisian asylum seeker suspected of carrying out the Berlin Christmas market terrorist attack earlier this week has been shot dead in Milan.
The 24-year-old hi-jacked a lorry, killing the driver, and drove it through a busy market at high speed, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others.
#BREAKING: Berlin terrorist was shot in Sesto San Giovanni, Milan: police stopped him, he then shot an officer before being shot dead pic.twitter.com/iXuHSsP068
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) December 23, 2016
Marco Minniti, Italy's interior minister told a press conference that Amri had been shot dead by police after firing at them when they stopped his car for a routine identity check around 3:00am this morning.
“He immediately took a pistol out of his rucksack and shot at the police who asked him for documents."
"The person killed after a number of inquiries without any shadow of a doubt is Anis Amri, the presumed suspect of the terrorist attack in Berlin," he said.
#BREAKING: Italien interior minister: man who was shot dead by police in Milan has been identified as Anis Amri, ID'd by fingerprint pic.twitter.com/KMkAJEs3IH
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) December 23, 2016
A police source said that Amri was then identified by fingerprints.
Amri had been missing and on the run since escaping after Monday's attack in central Berlin.
