Timeline of terror Vehicles used as weapons to slaughter innocents across Europe
Vehicles have been used as weapons several times by followers of Isil or in attacks claimed by the terror group.
On June 19, 2007, Adam Dzaziri, a 31-year-old radicalised Islamist, is killed when he rams a car loaded with guns and a gas canister into a police van on Paris’s Champselysees. No one else is injured.
On July 14, 2016, Mohamed Lahouaiejbouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, ploughs a 19-tonne truck into a Bastille Day crowd in
Nice, killing 86 people.
On December 19, 2016,
Tunisian national Anis Amri, 24, hijacks a truck and drives into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 and injuring 48. Amri is shot dead by Italian police
in Milan four days later.
On March 22,
2017, a 52-yearold British convert to Islam, Khalid Masood, mows down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and stabs a policeman, killing five and injuring around 50 before being shot dead.
On April 7,
2017, a truck attack by Uzbek national Rakhmat Akilov, 39, in Stockholm, Sweden, kills five people and injures 15 others.
On June 3, 2017, three attackers strike pedestrians with a van and go on a stabbing spree in the London
Bridge area of the capital. Eight people are killed before the assailants are shot dead.
On August 19,
2017, a 36-yearold Algerian drives a BMW into soldiers outside a barracks in Paris, injuring six. The suspect is arrested.