A car drove into the crowd at a German Christmas market in Magdeburg. The city spokesperson speaks of a “attack“.
A car crashed into a group of people at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, northern Germany, on Friday. Between “60 and 80 people” were injured when a car crashed into a Christmas market on Friday in the northern German city of Magdeburg, a spokesperson for the local emergency services said.
According to these services, several of the injured are “seriously“as a result of this act involving”a car“. This Saturday morning, the still provisional report shows two deaths, including a child, and more than 60 injured. Around fifteen of these injured are said to be seriously injured.
The drama is “probably an attack” according to authorities in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, said state government spokesman Matthias Schuppe. A city spokesman, Michael Reif, also said it was of a “attack on the Christmas market“.
The driver of the vehicle was also arrested, according to the German press agency DPA. “The information coming from Magdeburg suggests the worst. My thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones. We stand with them and with the people of Magdeburg. I thank the rescue teams involved in these hours of anguish“, wrote German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the social network X.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser recently called on the population to be vigilant at Christmas markets, without mentioning specific threats. Christmas markets are a “ideologically appropriate target for people motivated by Islamism“, the intelligence services had recently warned.
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