{UAH} Berlin terror attack: Police hunt for Tunisian man

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Berlin terror attack: Police hunt for Tunisian man after finding identity document in truck, as Isil claims responsibility 

21 December 2016 • 11:33am

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• Louise Burke

21 December 2016 • 11:33am

• 12 dead and 48 injured, some severely, at Berlin market
• German police hunt Tunisian man after finding identity document
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• Everything we know so far

German police are searching for a Tunisian man in connection with the deadly truck attack on a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market which killed 12 people

The man is aged 21 or 23 and known by three different names, according to reports in the daily Allgemeine Zeitung and the Bild newspaper.

Both said asylum office papers believed to belong to the man were found in the cab of the truck.

The documents, which announced a stay of deportation, were found under the driver's seat of the 40-tonne lorry that barrelled through the Christmas market in the heart of the German capital.

Picture believed to be of truck driver Lukasz Urban Credit:  

Police were reportedly searching for the suspect, who was born in the southern Tunisian city of Tataouine, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Twelve people were killed in what German authorities have called a "terrorist attack" in Berlin late Monday, including the Polish driver of the truck. Twenty-four remained in hospital, 14 of whom were seriously injured.

The scenes instantly revived nightmarish memories of the July 14 truck assault in the French Riviera city of Nice, where 86 people were killed by a Tunisian Islamist.

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