This is a terrible event, particularly now in the days before Christmas,” Saxony-Anhalt Gov. Reiner Haseloff said.

A car that purposely plowed through a crowded outdoor Christmas market in Germany Friday night injured multiple people and may have caused at least one death, authorities said.

This is a terrible event, particularly now in the days before Christmas," Saxony-Anhalt governor Reiner Haseloff said.

The Christmas market is located the city of Magdeburg, the capital of Saxony-Anhalt, where people had gathered to celebrate the Christmas holidays. One of the dead was a young chi

Officials say four women and a 9-year-old boy were killed when a man drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in the German city of Magdeburg

The horror arrived on the evening of December 20th, when a BMW ploughed through the Christmas market in Magdeburg, a city in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, killing a child and four women and leaving hundreds injured.

Tributes have been paid to a nine-year-old boy who was killed in an attack on a German Christmas market. André Gleissner died after a car drove into a crowd of shoppers at the market in Magdeburg on Friday evening,