Hundreds of mourners have gathered at a small
Polish church to bid farewell to the truck driver
killed in the Berlin Christmas market attack.
Lukasz Urban, 37, had been waiting to deliver
steel in the German capital when his truck was
hijacked by a man believed to be Tunisian Anis
Amri.
Amri is suspected of using the truck in the 19
December attack, which killed a total of 12
people.
He was killed in a shoot-out with police in Italy
days later.
Mr Urban was shot on the night of the attack
and his body was found in the truck's cab.
Among the mourners at the church in Banie, near
the border with Germany, was Poland's president
Andrzej Duda, several other Polish political
officials and a representative of the German
embassy to Poland.
A letter was also read out from Poland's Prime
Minister, Beata Szydlo, describing her "great pain
and sadness" at Mr Urban's death and
expressing her sympathy to his family.
Bishop Henryk Wejman described Mr Urban as a
man open to others and conscientious in his
work, adding: "His willingness to work and serve
others won him the trust of other people and the
openness to fellow man".
Mr Urban's coffin was taken out of the church
and driven in a hearse through the village to a
cemetery.
Before the funeral, truck drivers had honked their
trucks' horns in a tribute to Mr Urban.
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