Summary PM urged the world to be united for the elimination of terrorism.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (PM) on Tuesday has strongly condemned Berlin Christmas market incident that killed 12 people.
The premier said that Pakistan nation is standing with Germany in this time of grief and said that world urged the world to be united for the elimination of terrorism.
He said that Pakistan has also suffered a lot due to terrorist attacks.
Earlier, a lorry ploughed into a busy Christmas market in Berlin on Monday night, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more in what police said was a suspected terror attack.
Ambulances and heavily armed police rushed to the area after the vehicle mounted the pavement of the market in a square popular with tourists, in horrific scenes reminiscent of July’s deadly truck attack in the French Riviera city of Nice.
A German police spokeswoman told AFP that a man who was apparently driving the truck had been detained while the passenger was dead.
Police later identified the passenger as a Polish national.
Security sources cited by DPA news agency said that the man behind the wheel was an asylum seeker from Afghanistan or Pakistan who arrived in Germany in February.
The daily Tagesspiegel said the man was known to police but for minor crimes, not links to terrorism.
The Polish owner of the lorry confirmed his driver was missing.
--- with input from AFP
