The Daily Telegraph

Timeline of terror Vehicles used as weapons to slaughter innocents across Europe

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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.

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