Berlin police raid Tempelhof airport refugee camp after Christmas market attack

  20 December 2016    Read: 2139
Berlin police raid Tempelhof airport refugee camp after Christmas market attack
BERLIN police investigating the terror attack on a Christmas Market have raided a refugee camp in Tempelhof airport thought to house the suspected migrant lorry driver named as Naved B.
Multiple sources have confirmed that police launched a raid at a refugee camp in a disused airport at 4am this morning following the terror attack.

This comes as the suspect is being named as a 23-year-old Pakistani called Naved B born on January 1, 1993 named Naved B.

German media is reporting that police special forces storemd the hangar at Berlin`s defunct Tempelhof airport, which now houses a refugee accommodation centre.

Four young men were questioned at the police station in the refugee camp on the grounds of the former Tempelhof airport at the end of 20 from hangar 6, but there were no arrests, according to Sascha Langenbach, spokesman for the refugee agency.

Last night a truck ploughed into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others.

Tempelhof Airport, first built in 1923 and extended into its current form between 1936 and 1941 by the Nazis.

It was used by Allied troops in 1948 during the Berlin Airlift, when Allied airplanes supplied West Berlin with essentials during a blockade by Soviet forces.

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