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21 Dec 2016

Germany police hunt Tunisian asylum-seeker over Christmas market attack

Author: admintech | Filed under: World

Handout pictures released by the German Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) Federal Crime Office show suspect Anis Amri searched in relation with the Monday's truck attack on a Christmas market in BerlinBy Michael Nienaber and Matthias Inverardi BERLIN/DUESSELDORF (Reuters) – German police are looking for an asylum-seeker from Tunisia after finding an identity document under the driver's seat of a truck that plowed into a Berlin Christmas market and killed 12 people, officials and security sources said on Wednesday. The federal prosecutor's office offered a reward of up to 100,000 euros ($104,000) for information leading to the capture of the suspect, whom it identified as 24-year-old Anis Amri. German police commandos raided two apartments in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg late on Wednesday but did not find Amri, Die Welt newspaper reported, citing investigators.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/germany-frees-suspect-market-attack-says-perpetrator-maybe-004334254.html