The militant group calling itself Islamic State (ISIL) acknowledged on Friday the death of Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri, shot dead in a police shootout overnight in Milan.<br /><br /> ISIL had already claimed responsibility for Monday’s truck attack, which killed 12 people and wounded dozens more in the German capital. <br /><br /> The group has now confirmed through its Amaq news agency that Amri carried out the rampage, and that he was killed in Milan during a shoot-out with Italian police.<br /><br /> “The executor of the Berlin attacks carries out another attack on Italian police in Milan and is killed in a shoot-out,” it said in a statement.<br /><br /> Amaq posted a video of Amri pledging allegiance to ISIL’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and calling for supporters of the militant group to take revenge of “crusader pigs” bombing Muslims. “Their blood will not go in vain. We are a nation behind them and will take revenge for them,” he said.<br />
