The suspected perpetrator of a deadly ramming at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday is a 50-year-old Saudi refugee from a Shiite family who declared himself an atheist and "anti-Islam".The ramming came eight years to the day after a similar attack on a Christmas market in Berlin that killed 13 people.

Several hundred people gathered for a vigil in the German city of Magdeburg on Sunday, following the deadly attack on a Christmas market that killed five and injured 200 people. Families and people of all ages came to the Johanniskirche church,