Anis Amri News

Security forces in eastern Tunisia on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of close links to Anis Amri, the Islamic State supporter who allegedly drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people, local reports said.

Three people were injured in the German city of Heidelberg when an unidentified man drove a car into a pedestrian area, media reports said.

A police official says that German authorities knew of 14 different identities used by Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri.

Suspected Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri considered heading to Rome before finally plumping for Milan where police shot him dead, Italian media reported Friday. 

Surveillance footage confirms that Anis Amri, the suspected Berlin truck attacker gunned down by Italian police, transited through the French city of Lyon by train, a source close to the investigation said.

Tunisia arrested the nephew of the suspected Berlin truck attacker and two other jihadist suspects who are "connected" to the assailant Anis Amri, the interior ministry said on Saturday. 

A statement said that the three suspects were members of a "terrorist cell... connected to the terrorist Anis Amri who carried out the terrorist attack in Berlin".

The Tunisian man, believed to be the suspect in the Berlin Christmas market truck attack was killed in a shoot-out Italy's Milan on Friday, reports said.

German authorities came under fire Thursday after it emerged that the prime suspect in Berlin`s deadly truck attack, a rejected Tunisian asylum seeker, was known as a potentially dangerous jihadist.