Man Arrested in Ukraine for Planning Truck Terror Attack

Police in Ukraine have arrested a man who was planning to run people over in a truck terror attack in Odessa, Ukraine.

The thwarted terror attack comes two weeks after Anis Amri, a Tunisian migrant who claimed allegiance to ISIS plowed a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 and injuring more than 50.

Trucks have become a popular weapon used by jihadis to carry out terror attacks.

In July, a jihadi drove a 19 tonne truck into a crowd of people in Nice, France, killing 86 and injuring nearly 450 people.

According to police, the man murdered two people, set two houses on fire, and escaped in a stolen truck before he was arrested. He was planning on using the truck to carry out the attack.

“Russian police arrest ‘killer who beheaded a mother and her daughter’ then drove a truck at 100mph in ‘attempt to emulate Berlin lorry attack”

DAILY MAIL, December 30, 2016

A suspected killer who attempted to ’emulate the Berlin lorry attack’ has been arrested in Ukraine after allegedly beheading a woman and her daughter.

The 25-year-old man, named as Dmitry P. murdered a woman aged, 42, and her daughter, two, say police, who issued a picture of the suspect.

Driving a truck at high speed, he was then blocked by officers from entering Odessa, police say.

On his way he had caused a ‘traffic accident’ at 100mph which is why he was prevented from going beyond the city limits of the Black Sea port.

It comes nearly two weeks after an ISIS fanatic drove a lorry through crowds of revellers in Berlin, killing 12 and injuring 48.

Dmitry Golovin, head of Odessa region police, alleged the man ‘aimed to repeat the Berlin terrorist attack by smashing into street crowds in a lorry’ in Odessa, according to reports.