THE Tunisian man suspected of carrying out a deadly lorry attack on a Christmas market in Berlin was killed yesterday morning by police in Milan.

Officers said Anis Amri travelled from Germany through France and into Italy after the attack, making at least some of the journey by train.

French officials refused to comment on his passage through their country, which has increased surveillance on its trains after recent attacks there and the Berlin massacre.

Italian Premier Paolo Gentiloni praised the two young police officers involved for their courage in taking down Mr Amri during a routine check of ID papers while he was alone outside a deserted railway station.

But he also called for greater cross-border police co-operation, as Mr Amri had travelled across Europe despite being the continent’s most wanted fugitive.

Mr Amri was identified with the help of fingerprints supplied by Germany.

Death cult Isis has claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack outside the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, in which a lorry was driven into a Christmas market.

Twelve people were killed, including the lorry’s original driver, and about 50 injured.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said there would be a broad investigation into the case after it emerged that Mr Amri had been under covert surveillance for six months this year.

Italian officials stressed that the two officers who stopped Mr Amri didn’t suspect he was the Berlin attacker, but rather grew suspicious because he was a North African man alone outside a deserted railway station at 3am.

Police said that Mr Amri had drawn a gun from his rucksack and shot at the officers, wounding one slightly in the shoulder.

Mr Amri was then fatally shot in the chest.

He had no ID, no phone and only a pocket knife on him, as well as the loaded pistol.

“He was a ghost,” Milan police chief Antoio de Iesu said, adding that he was stopped thanks to basic police work, intensified surveillance “and a little luck.”