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| Berlin market attack: Tunisia arrests suspect Amri's nephew | |
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| Tunisian security forces have arrested the nephew of the Berlin market attacker Anis Amri and two others suspects, officials say. | |
| The Tunisian interior ministry said the three, aged between 18 and 27, were members of a "terrorist cell", and that they were detained overnight. | |
| Tunisian-born Amri, 24, was shot dead by police in the Italian city of Milan in the early hours of Friday. | |
| Monday's lorry attack on the market left 12 people dead and 49 injured. | |
| The interior ministry statement said Amri's nephew had confessed that he communicated with his uncle via the encrypted chat application Telegram to evade security surveillance. | |
| It said the three-member cell had been active in the towns of Fouchana, outside Tunis, and Oueslatia near Amri's hometown of Kairouan, about 150km (95 miles) south of the capital. | |
| The statement added that the nephew had also said he supported the so-called Islamic State group. | |
| On Friday, IS released a video showing Amri pledging allegiance to its leader Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi. |