Berlin – One or more of the perpetrators of a truck attack at a Berlin Christmas market may still be on the loose, police chief Holger Muench confirms.
“We are, of course, highly alarmed and we are investigating – of course – in all directions,” Muench said at a press conference in response to a journalist’s question.
The damaged truck near the Kaiser-Wilhelm Memorial Church in western Berlin. Twelve people were killed and 48 others injured in an attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, police and fire department officials say. Photo: Rainer Jensen/dpa
The news comes shortly after officials admitted they were uncertain whether a Pakistani suspect in police custody was in fact the driver of the vehicle that ran through the market, killing 12 people and injuring dozens.
The Pakistani man has denied involvement in the attack. Another suspect, a Polish national who was a passenger in the truck, was found shot dead at the scene.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said earlier that the gun had not been recovered.
-dpa
