A toddler and one other person have been killed and around 60-80 injured, according to German media, after a car was driven into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg.
Among the dead was also a toddler along with an adult and the officials told Associated Press that the death toll may rise as some of the victims got seriously injured.
“It is unimaginable that this is happening in Germany,” Reiner Haseloff, the prime minister of Saxony-Anhalt state, of which Magdenburg is the capital, said during a visit to the scene with other officials on Saturday, confirming the latest tol
The death toll in the attack on a busy Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has risen to five, with more than 200 people injured, the state governor said Saturday.
Taleb A, a 50-year-old Saudi doctor arrested in connection with the car attack on a crowd of revellers at a Christmas market in Germany's Magdeburg, had secured a permanent residence permit for Germany in 2006.
Saudi physician suspected in Germany' scar ramming attack on Christmas market was an atheist who held strong anti-Islam views and was angry with Germany's migrant and asylum policy, officials said on Saturday.
German Interior Nancy Faeser on Sunday promised a quick investigation into the Magdeburg Christmas market attack, saying "every stone" was being turned over. "The investigations by the security authorities are in full swing,
Seven Indian nationals were injured in a car attack at a German Christmas market, with three discharged and others receiving ongoing care. A Saudi national, residing in Germany since 2006 and working as a doctor,
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 Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff told journalists on Saturday.