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Twelve people were killed and nearly 50 others injured when a truck drove into the popular Christmas market filled with tourists and locals outside the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church near Berlin’s Zoo station Dec 19, 2016.
Dec. 19, 2016
Twelve people were killed and more than 45 others injured Monday evening when a 40-ton truck from Poland crashed into a popular outdoor Christmas market in the heart of Berlin and smashed its way about 80 yards through the crowd.
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Dec. 22, 2016
The German capital was rattled again Tuesday when senior police officials admitted they had arrested the wrong man in their investigation into an apparent terrorist attack that killed 12 people at an outdoor Christmas market the day before.
Dec. 20, 2016
Europe’s most wanted man was shot dead in Milan by a routine police patrol on Friday, four days after he allegedly drove a truck into a Christmas fair in Berlin, killing 12 and wounding dozens.
Dec. 23, 2016
German authorities have detained a 40-year-old Tunisian man living in Berlin and suspected of being an accomplice of Anis Amri, a 24-year-old refugee from Tunisia who deliberately drove a hijacked tractor trailer truck into a Christmas market that killed 12 people in the country’s worst terror attack since the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Dec. 28, 2016
German police launched a European-wide manhunt Wednesday for a Tunisian man suspected of deliberately driving a truck into a crowd of Christmas revelers in the center of Berlin, killing 12, in the country’s worst terror attack in decades.
Dec. 21, 2016
Tunisia’s Interior Ministry said Saturday that police have arrested the nephew of Anis Amri — the suspect in the deadly Berlin market attack — and two others suspected of belonging to the same extremist network.
Dec. 24, 2016
Fingerprints matching a fugitive Tunisian refugee were found Thursday inside the truck that plowed into a Berlin Christmas market this week, killing 12 people.
California
Expect to see heightened security at Los Angeles shopping areas, farmers markets and other large gathering places in the coming days as authorities step up security measures in the wake of the Berlin Christmas market truck attack that killed 12 people this week.