A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 68 others in what authorities suspect was an attack.
A short video of the incident posted on X and geolocated to the city of Magdeburg in eastern Germany showed a vehicle speeding through a large group of shoppers.
The suspect is a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who moved to Germany in 2006, Tamara Zieschang, the interior minister for the state of Saxony-Anhalt, said at a news conference. He has been practicing medicine in Bernburg, about 40 kilometers (25 miles ...
At least five people are now known to have been killed in the vehicle-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday.
At least two people have been killed, according to the head of the state government. Police have taken a Saudi national into custody.
A car has been driven into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in eastern Germany. German news agency dpa has reported that the vehicle was driven into a group of people at the market in Magdeburg on Friday.
As the number of casualties keeps rising, the German interior minister has revealed the suspect is Islamophobic. Meanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he's "very worried" about the serious condition of 40 of the more than 200 people injured.
At least five people are now known to have been killed in the vehicle-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday.
The death toll in the attack on a busy Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has risen to five, the state governor said Saturday. Saxony-Anhalt Gov. Reiner Haseloff also said that more than 200 people in total were injured,
The state premier of Saxony-Anhalt says two people have been killed, and many more have been injured after a driver rammed through a crowd in the eastern German city of Magdeburg. Here's what we know.
A 50-year-old suspect is being remanded in custody after five people were killed and more than 200 injured in a car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg. Saudi Arabian sources say they repeatedly warned Germany about the suspect's "extremist" views.