PICTURES: Scene of Killing Berlin Attack Suspect Anis Amri

The Tunisian man suspected of carrying out the deadly Berlin truck attack at the Christmas market was shot dead by police in Milan on December 23, Italy’s interior minister Marco Minniti said.

The minister told a press conference in Rome that Anis Amri had been fatally shot after firing at two police officers who had stopped his car for a routine identity check around 3:00 am (0200 GMT).

Identity checks had established “without a shadow of doubt” that the dead man was Amri, the minister said , AFP  Reports.

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