MAGDEBURG: The Saudi suspect in Germany's deadly car-ramming attack on a Christmas market held strongly anti-Islam views and was angry with Germany's migrant and asylum policy, officials said Saturday

The chaotic scenes at the Christmas market recalled the events that took place almost exactly eight years ago in the German capital.

MAGDEBURG, Germany: German police arrested a Saudi man after a deadly car-ramming attack on a Christmas market on Friday (Dec 20) in which an SUV barrelled through a crowd of revellers at high speed, leaving a trail of bloody carnage. At least two people were killed, one of them a young c

MAGDEBURG, Germany: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday (Dec 21) condemned the "terrible, insane" car-ramming attack on a crowded Christmas market that killed five people and injured more than 200.

Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The death toll rose to five Saturday, including a 9-year-old, with 200 injured and could rise higher from Friday's evening's Christmas market car attack in Magdeburg, Germany.

Initially, the attack drew comparisons on social media to an Islamist-influenced immigrant's deadly attack on a Berlin Christmas market in 2016.

The violence shocked the country and the city, bringing its mayor to the verge of tears and marring a festive event that’s part of a centuries-old German tradition.

The Ministry of External Affairs said that the Indian Mission in Germany has been actively coordinating with injured Indian nationals and their families, offering all possible assistance.

The horrifying scene unfolded as a Saudi doctor intentionally drove his vehicle into the Christmas market, targeting festive shoppers. The fatalities include a young child.

The suspected perpetrator of a deadly ramming at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday is a 50-year-old Saudi refugee from a Shiite family who declared himself an atheist and "anti-Islam".The ramming came eight years to the day after a similar attack on a Christmas market in Berlin that killed 13 people.

Seven Indians have been injured in the deadly car-ramming attack in the eastern German city of Magdeburg and the Indian embassy in Berlin.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned the "terrible, insane" attack that killed five people and shocked the nation, days before Christmas and eight years after a jihadist drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin.

Chancellor Scholz vows response with "full force of the law".

Five people, including a small child, have died after a car ploughed into a Christmas market in Germany.

Police were puzzling over the motive of Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, the top suspect after an SUV ploughed at high speed through a dense crowd Friday, also injuring 205 people in the eastern city of Magdeburg.

Reports that suspect was a refugee from Saudi Arabia who hated Muslims raise complicated questions during German election campaign.

Taleb Jawad al-Abdulmohsen, 50, is a Saudi refugee from a Shiite family who declared himself as

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has ordered that flags be lowered to half-staff at all federal buildings across Germany, mourning for the lives lost in the Christmas market attack.