The man accused of driving a lorry into a crowded Berlin Christmas market killing 12 people in a suspected terror attack has been identified by local media as a 23-year-old Pakistani refugee.
"Naved B" had been living in Flughfen Tempelhof – an old airport that had been converted into a refugee centre – and was detained last night following the attack.
According to German media, the 23-year-old travelled to Germany a year ago via the Balkans and registered on 31 December 2015 in Passau, Bavaria.
The suspect was granted a temporary residence permit in June 2016, according to the German newspaper Die Welt citing a criminal police report.
News agency dpa said the suspect Naved B has denied involvement in the fatal incident.
The lorry was deliberately driven at the crowd for between 50 and 80 metres, law enforcement officials have claimed.
Witnesses of the Berlin attack described scenes of panic as a lorry veered off the road at around 8pm local time.
At least 12 were killed and 48 more injured in the incident at the market, just off the infamous shopping street Kurfürstendamm, near the Victory Column monument.
The suspect was picked up around 2km from the scene and was being interrogated.
German media have reported the suspect was known as a petty criminal, but was not thought to be a potential terrorist.
Four young men were also questioned after German special forces police stormed a hangar at Berlin's Tempelhof airpot on Tuesday morning, but no arrests were made.
Bavaria's interior minister Joachim Herrmann has called for a review of German refugee policy in light of the incident.
"If it is confirmed that this attack was committed by someone who has been registered as an asylum seeker in the country, then it must lead to a fundamental reflection on the design of the whole refugee system," Mr Herrmann said on German radio.
Klaus Bouillon, Germany's interior minister told Saarland radio: "We must say that we are in a state of war, although some people who want to see only the good cannot see."
The identity of the alleged attacker was first revealed by German daily Die Welt, which said the attacker was born on 1 January 1993.
The information has not been confirmed by the police, who have yet to give details about the alleged offender.
A passenger in the lorry, thought to be the original driver, was found dead inside. According to the Brandenburg Ministry of the Interior, the Polish passenger was probably shot.
The Polish driver is a victim and not an offender, Minister of the Interior Karl-Heinz Schröter claimed.
The German interior ministry said Christmas markets should continue to stay open after the fatal attack.
