MILAN – Anis Amri, the Tunisian terrorist believed responsible for the Berlin lorry attack, was shot and killed in a firefight with Italian police in the province of Milan in the early hours Friday, police said.

 Amri was stopped by police for an identity check at around 3 a.m. as he was walking in front of the railway station at the town of Sesto San Giovanni. Asked to show his papers, Amri pulled a pistol from his rucksack and shot a police officer, wounding him in the shoulder and shouting Allahu Akbar (God is great) before he died.

 The agents shot back, killing the man instantly. The wounded police man was being treated at hospital in Monza and was not in serious condition.

 Amri was identified from fingerprint controls. He had entered Italy from Chambery, France, travelling to Turin and then taking a train from Turin to Milan and another to Sesto San Giovanni. Amri spent four years in prison in Italy before he was deported and went to Germany last year.

  Amri was killed by a trainee police officer - 29-year-old Luca Scatà, sources said. The other policeman, Christian Movio, 36, is in hospital in Monza after being injured in Friday's shootout, sources said.

    He needs surgery after being hit by a bullet in the shoulder, but his overall condition is good .

  "There is a high level of control throughout the nation which, when a man on-the-run enters our country, makes it possible to identify and neutralize him," Interior Minister Marco Minniti told reporters. "This means that the security system works".