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.

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.

A least one person has been killed and dozens injured in the incident, according to German public broadcaster MDR

“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.

At least two people were killed, including a small child, and more than 60 were injured when a car plowed through a crowded Christmas market in eastern Germany on Friday, officials said.

At least five people are dead and over 200 people have been injured, 40 critically, officials said. Latest updates.

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 60 others in what authorities called a deliberate attack.

A Saudi doctor has been arrested after a driver ploughed a car into a busy Christmas market in eastern Germany, killing at least two. Police arrested the suspect, who has been identified as Taleb A., a 50-year-old doctor who sympathised with Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party, according to local media.

By Andrey Sychev and Tanya Wood (Reuters) -A driver killed at least two people when he rammed into a large crowd of revellers at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday evening, local officials said.

An adult and toddler have died after a car plowed into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, said Reiner Haseloff, the regional prime minister of Saxony-Anhalt. At least 15 people ...