Opening Fire: Tunisian-Born Amri

opening fire: It made no direct link between the trio and the Berlin assault on Monday, when Amri is believed to have hijacked a truck and used it to mow down people at a Christmas market, killing 12, according to The Japan Times. The 24-year-old went on the run and was the focus of a four-day manhunt before being shot dead by police in Milan after opening fire first. Tunisia's interior ministry said the nephew and two other suspects, aged between 18 and 27, were detained on Friday and were members of a terrorist cell connected to Tunisian-born Amri. The Berlin rampage was claimed by the Islamic State group, which released a video on Friday in which Amri is shown pledging allegiance to IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The arrests come as German authorities probe whether Amri had help before or after the attack. The Tunisian interior ministry said in a statement that Amri had sent money to his nephew so he could join him in Germany, and had allegedly urged him to pledge allegiance to Daesh IS . The unnamed nephew also claimed his uncle was the leader of a jihadi group based in Germany, known as the Abu al-Walaa brigade, it added. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.