The Berlin Christmas market attack suspect, Anis Amri was killed in an early-morning shootout in Milan, Italian state police announced on Friday.
The Berlin Christmas market
terrorist attack suspect, Anis Amri has been killed in Milan, according to Italian state police.
Recall that Twelve people were killed and dozens injured when a truck allegedly driven by the suspect plowed into a busy Christmas market in Berlin Monday.
Italian forensics experts gather around the body of suspected Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri on Friday.
The suspect was killed in a shootout in Sesto San Giovanni - a district in the northeastern part of the city - just after 3am local time, Italian police said on their Twitter feed.
Amri, the subject of a Europe-wide manhunt since Monday's atrocity, was stopped in Sesto San Giovanni - a district in the northeastern part of Milan - just after 3am local time, Italian police said on their Twitter feed.
He was asked for his papers, but he pulled a .22 calibre gun out of his backpack and fired, police said.
Italian authorities cordon off the area where Anis Amri was shot.
The driver of the police car returned fire, killing the suspect. One policeman was injured in the shootout and is in hospital.
In a press conference Friday, Italian Interior Minister, Marco Minniti said the man shot was "without any doubt" Amri, adding that one of the shot police officers, Cristian Morio, was recovering in hospital. A second police agent, Luca Scata, was not harmed.
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