Car ploughs into crowd, leaves dozens of victims at German Christmas market

At least four people have been killed and dozens injured in a multiple hit-and-run at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, in northeastern Germany and capital of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. Police have arrested the driver of the vehicle that ran over the crowd of people, which the regional authorities have defined as an attack.

The Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, told the press that the detainee is “a man from Saudi Arabia, a doctor who has been in Germany since 2006”,, reported Agence France-Presse.

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The spokesman of the government of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Matthias Schuppe, has assured that the event “is surely an attack” because of the way it happened, since the car was launched directly against the crowd.

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According to the German newspaper Bild, the attack occurred after 7 p.m. in the evening, when an individual driving a dark-colored BMW rammed into the crowd at the Christmas market, causing panic among passers-by, who tried to flee the area.

The manager of the Christmas market has called on the residents to leave the city center, while videos posted on social networks show images of the market shortly after the incident, with several ambulances in the area.

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz acknowledged that the first information that has reached him “suggests something wrong.” “My thoughts are with the victims and their families. My thanks to the dedicated rescue workers in these anxious hours,” the German leader added on his social networks.

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It was just eight years ago that Christmas in Berlin was marked by horror and bloodshed. The Islamist terrorist Anis Amri, on board a stolen truck, charged into the crowded Christmas market. Twelve people were killed, half a hundred injured.

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