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4. Headline at OP link: Berlin market attack suspect killed in shootout in northern Italy

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS | Fri Dec 23, 2016 | 11:22am GMT

Berlin market attack suspect killed in shootout in northern Italy

By Emilio Parodi and Antonella Cinelli | MILAN

The suspect in the Berlin Christmas market truck attack was killed in a pre-dawn shoot-out with police in a suburb of the northern Italian city of Milan on Friday, Italy's interior minister said.

"The man killed was without a shadow of doubt Anis Amri," Marco Minniti said, referring to the 24-year-old Tunisian who is suspected of driving the truck that smashed through a Berlin market on Monday killing 12 people.

Minniti told reporters that Amri was stopped by two policemen at around 3 a.m. (3.00 a.m. BST) in front of the Sesto San Giovanni train station, north of Milan.

When he was asked for his identification papers, Amri pulled a gun and shot one of the two policemen, lightly wounding him in the shoulder. He in turn was then shot dead by the police.

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