'ISIS terrorist' who killed 12 after hijacking HGV, murdering driver and ploughing into Berlin Christmas market is 'a Pakistani asylum seeker, 23, who has only been in Germany for a few months'

A Pakistani asylum seeker believed to have used a hijacked 25-tonne Polish lorry to murder 12 people and injure 48 more at a Berlin Christmas market last night had only been in Germany for months and was already known to police because of petty crime. The masked 23-year-old named as Naved B (pictured left being taken into a police station last night), who entered the country under a false name, turned off the truck's lights before
mounting the pavement at 40mph and ploughing through crowds of people enjoying mulled wine after work. Police have towed away the vehicle that ripped through stalls and shoppers on Breitscheidplatz Square in the German capital's main shopping area (pictured today right). Its battered windscreen still had a wreath from a stall embedded in its shattered glass (inset). Witnesses said victims - including children - were sent flying like bowling pins or sucked under the wheels while others ran for their lives as the killer driver steered at them before jumping out of the cab. Police traced the masked terror suspect to a nearby zoo and managed to take him alive. He is in a Berlin police station today. Police confirmed the lorry's original Polish driver was found dead in the cab in an apparent murder hijacking. German officials have said that the driver is a Pakistani national who entered Germany via the Balkans in February as an asylum seeker. He was believed to be living in a refugee camp at Berlin's Tempelhof airport, which was raided by an elite group of armed anti-terror police at 4am this morning.