Deadly Magdeburg Christmas market attack shakes Germany as election looms – POLITICO

A driver plowed a car at high speed into crowds of people at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg, adding further tension to an election campaign already riven by a bitter debate over migration.

Right-wing parties seized on reports that the driver was a man from Saudi Arabia, even before that or any motive for the apparent attack was confirmed. The incident took place almost eight years to the day after a terrorist drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin.

At least five people were killed on Friday night, including a young child, according to the premier of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). More than 200 people were injured, according to media reports.