Driver arrested after incident in Magdeburg, west of Berlin, according to media reports

• Car ploughs into crowd at Christmas market

On December 19th 2016, a truck driven by Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist links, crashed into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring dozens of others. The attacker was killed days later in a shootout in Milan.

About 60 to 80 people have been injured in the attack, according to the AFP news agency.