Multiple deaths, dozens injured in Magdeburg market attack

· DW

Saxony-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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