An Italian national, Antonio Megalizzi, died as a result of wounds he sustained in the shooting, officials said a day after the French police killed the man believed responsible.<\/b>
\nA fourth victim of the attack on the Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, was named on Friday, the morning after the French police shot dead the man accused of the rampage in the heart of the historic city.
The suspect, Ch\u00e9rif Chekatt, 29, was killed in the Neudorf neighborhood of Strasbourg after firing on the police on Thursday night, ending a two-day manhunt that involved more than 700 members of the security forces.
Officials named the fourth person to die of wounds sustained in the shooting as the journalist Antonio Megalizzi, an Italian national. Italy\u2019s Foreign Ministry said Mr. Megalizzi was in Strasbourg to follow the plenary session of the European Parliament for the Europhonica radio network.
The other three people killed included a Thai tourist, an Afghan who had emigrated to France and a Frenchman who had recently retired. Several other people were wounded.
The city, on eastern France\u2019s Rhine river border with Germany, reopened its Christmas market on Friday under heavy security. French troops, who have been used to bolster national security since a wave of Islamic State-inspired attacks began in France in 2015, stood guard at the open-air market.
Strasbourg\u2019s mayor, Roland Ries, said the attack was indisputably an act of terrorism, and expressed relief that Mr. Chekatt had been killed. \u201cI think it will help to get back to a life that I would describe as normal,\u201d he told reporters.
The Islamic State claimed Mr. Chekatt as one of its soldiers. It provided no evidence for the claim, which Interior Minister Christophe Castaner called \u201copportunistic.\u201d
He said that nothing indicated Mr. Chekatt \u201cwas part of a network.\u201d
\u201cThere is nothing to suggest that he was being protected by such, but the investigation is not yet over,\u201d Mr. Castaner told Europe 1.
He said Mr. Chekatt was radicalized during time in prison. The police were still interrogating seven associates on Friday, including his parents, to determine whether he had accomplices.
France ramped up its security threat to its highest level after the attack late on Tuesday. Prime Minister \u00c9douard Philippe promised an extra 1,800 troops would be put on patrols with a special focus on Christmas markets. The outdoor market in Strasbourg, centered on a towering Christmas tree, draws more than two million visitors each year.<\/p>\n