Italian woman, 31, feared among victims of Berlin truck massacre after her phone and metro pass were found at scene of terror attack
AN Italian woman is feared to be one of the victims of the Berlin Christmas market attack after her phone was found at the scene, it is reported.
Fabrizia Di Lorenzo, 31, who lives and works in Germany, has been missing since the attack, Corriere della Sera newspaper reports.
Police confirmed a mobile phone found at the crime scene was registered to her.
At least 12 people were killed and some 50 injured when a hijacked lorry ploughed into a packed Christmas market at Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz – in a chilling echo of the deadly terror attack in Nice earlier this year.
Six of the 12 people killed in the attacks have been identified, says Holger Munch, the head of Germany's federal criminal police office.
He says all six are German nationals, adding that the identities of the other six are yet to be established.
Miss Di Lorenzo's family are believed to be on their way to Berlin.
Pietro Benassi, the Italian ambassador to Germany told Bild newspaper: "We are looking for a person and have reasons to be concerned."
The alarm was raised when she failed to turn up for work on Tuesday morning.
Her family, from Sulmona in central Italy, have launched appeals on social media for information about her whereabouts.
In a heartbreaking plea for help, a relative wrote on Twitter: “My cousin Fabrizia Di Lorenzo not replying to us since yesterday night. Some1 found her phone and metro pass on the site. #help”
Miss Di Lorenzo had been working for a transport company in Berlin for two years, but had lived in the Berlin since 2013, when she started working for Bosch.
She reportedly went to university in Rome before completing a course in international relations in Bologna.
She was also an Erasmus student at Berlin’s Free University.
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It comes as the Polish lorry driver whose truck was hijacked by the Berlin Christmas Market attacker “was stabbed and shot to death”, his cousin has revealed.
Dad-of-one Lukasz Urban, 37, is believed to be one of the first victims of yesterday’s terror attack at Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz.
The suspect hijacked the truck on Monday hours before the killings.
Police confirmed the lorry's original driver was returning from transporting steel beams into Germany.
He was found stabbed and shot in the cab after the murder hijacking, and died at the scene.
The driver's cousin Ariel Zurawski, who owns the firm, said there was no way his relative was involved.
He said: "His face was swollen and bloodied. It was really clear that he was fighting for his life."
Authorities this morning began the grisly task of clearing the scene of an atrocity that has shocked a Germany gearing up for the festive season.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel laid flowers at the scene this afternoon alongside Berlin mayor Michael Mueller and Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.
An emotional Angela Merkel is "in mourning" over the horrific scenes in her country's capital just days before Christmas. She confirmed the incident was a "terrorist attack".
French president Francois Hollande released a statement expressing his "solidarity and compassion to Chancellor Merkel, the German people and the families of victims of Berlin."
The attack is believed to be a copycat of the Nice attack in which 86 people were killed after a lorry ploughed into crowds celebrating Bastille Day.
The driver drove for over a mile through crowds on the Promenade des Anglais in the French city before being shot by police.
President Hollande said the attack was of "an undeniable terrorist nature".
Those caught up in the attacks shared pictures on social media in the immediate aftermath.
Tourist Emma Rushton, from England, tweeted from the scene: "Lorry just ploughed through Christmas market in #berlin. People crushed. I am safe. I am safe."
It comes weeks after ISIS threatened massacres at Christmas markets and events.
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