The Berlin Christmas market massacre suspect has reportedly been shot dead in Milan by police, according to reports.
Anis Amri is said to have been killed in a shootout during a routine traffic stop when he pulled out a gun injuring one officer.
He reportedly launched the attack at about 3am local time after being asked to show his identity documents by police.
A major international manhunt was launched for the 24-year-old Tunisian national who allegedly offered himself up as a suicide bomber for the Islamic State terror group before hijacking a truck and killing 12.
It comes just hours after he was apparently spotted in Denmark hundreds of miles away from the scene of the attack.
Danish investigators were probing the possibility that Anis Amri travelled there from Germany after allegedly killing 12 after hijacking a truck.
A man walking his dog last night tipped off officers that he had seen someone matching the description of 24-year-old Tunisian national Amri in another area called Grenaa.
The 24-year-old Tunisian national’s ID papers were found underneath the driver’s seat of the truck he became the most wanted man on the continent.
Police initially arrested a Pakistani asylum seeker in the aftermath of the tragedy, police on Tuesday announced they had captured the wrong man and were instead hunting for Amri.
A €100,000 reward has been put up to catch the main suspect and investigators took the highly unusual step of releasing an uncensored picture of him to aid their search.
During his short time in Germany, he became linked to Abu Walaa, 32, a hate preacher whose sermons recruited young impressionable Muslims, sending them to Syria to fight for ISIS .
Walaa was arrested in Hildesheim, in the north of the country, in November alongside four others for recruiting radicals.
Amri arrived in Europe via Italy in 2012 when he slipped in alongside Syrian refugees.
Security sources in Tunisia believe he then spent some years in prison in Italy over the burning down of a school before applying for asylum in Germany earlier this year.
His application was rejected but he was allowed to stay because of red tape.
