UPDATING The police have meanwhile arrested the driver of the car that crashed into the Christmas market. The suspect was born in 1974 in Saudi Arabia.
They would be there at least 11 dead in Magdeburgin Germany, where a car, one A dark BMW crashed into the crowd at a Christmas market. The newspaper Bild reports it. According to the rescuers the injured are between 60 and 80. The police said they had arrested the driver of the car. The suspected would have been born in 1974 in Saudi Arabia, reports Die Welt. The man walked about 400 meters mowing down the crowd with his carwhich he would have rented shortly before. Magdeburg is the capital of the state of Saxony-Anhalt and is located about two hours' drive west of Berlin in central Germany. It was a “alleged terrorist attack“, a spokesperson for the Saxony-Anhalt government told the German agency Dpa.
Several injured people are being treated by paramedics in front of market stalls and have also been set up tents where the injured can receive treatment. Emergency vehicles flooded the market area, the German agency writes, recalling that almost eight years ago, on 19 December 2016, an Islamist terrorist deliberately crashed a truck into a Christmas market in the center of Berlin, causing the death of 13 people and the wounding of over 70. The attacker then managed to escape to Italy, where he was shot dead by the police.
