Polish owner of Berlin lorry says driver 'missing'
WARSAW – The Polish owner of the lorry that ploughed into a Berlin Christmas market on Monday (Dec 19), killing at least nine people in what police said was a possible terror attack, confirmed his driver was missing.
Parts of a Christmas market decoration stick in the windscreen of a truck following an accident with the truck on Breitscheidplatz square near the fashionable Kurfuerstendamm avenue in the west of Berlin, Germany, Dec 19, 2016. Photo: Reuters
WARSAW – The Polish owner of the lorry that ploughed into a Berlin Christmas market on Monday (Dec 19), killing at least nine people in what police said was a possible terror attack, confirmed his driver was missing.
"We haven't heard from him since this afternoon. We don't know what happened to him. He's my cousin, I've known him since I was a kid. I can vouch for him," transport company owner Ariel Zurawski told AFP.
The company's transport manager, Lukasz Wasik, said the driver is 37 years old and had been transporting Thyssen steel products from Italy to Berlin.
"The company where he was supposed to unload the products in Berlin was not able to receive them and told him to return on Tuesday morning. They told him to wait in Berlin somewhere," Wasik told AFP.
"We lost contact with him around 3.00pm local time (10.00pm Singapore time). We don't know what happened – whether he was taken hostage, killed. We know nothing. We're very worried about him."
"What a tragedy," he added. AFP
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