Multiple deaths, dozens injured in Magdeburg market attack
· DWSaxony-Anhalt Premier Reiner Haseloff said police arrested a Saudi national thought to have driven a car into a crowd of people. Two people were killed and dozens were injured, some of them seriously, Haseloff said.
- 2 killed, including a young child, and at least 60 injured as car plows into crowd at Magdeburg Christmas market
- Police arrested a suspect soon after
- The man is a Saudi citizen with permanent residency status in Germany who had been in the country since 2006
- Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his thoughts were with the victims and their families
- Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said she and Scholz would visit Magdeburg on Saturday
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