20 December 2016

Berlin Christmas market attack suspect a refugee, CNN says



The man suspected of deliberately ramming a large truck into a Christmas market in Berlin is a refugee from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, two German intelligence officials and a police official told CNN


The sources said the suspect in Monday evening's attack, which killed 12 people and injured dozens more, arrived in Passau, a city on Germany's border with Austria, on December 31, 2015, after traveling through the Balkans.

Latest developments

Security officials say truck driver is from Afghanistan-Pakistan region

Merkel says incident is being treated as a terror attack

Case has been handed to German federal police and public prosecutor

A second man found dead in truck was Polish, not at wheel when crash occurred

At least 48 people hospitalized when the truck hit the crowd

Victims yet to be formally identified, no name released

SOURCE : CNN

0 comments:

Translate

Facebook