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Five people have been killed, including a child, and more than 200 injured after a car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg, officials said, BBC reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Many people were critically injured, Reiner Haseloff, the premier of Saxony-Anhalt state, told reporters on Saturday. German media reported 41 critical injuries.<\/p>\n
Haseloff told reporters on Friday that the suspect – who was arrested – was a 50-year-old Saudi citizen who arrived in Germany in 2006 and had worked as a doctor.<\/p>\n
He said a preliminary investigation suggested the alleged attacker was acting as a lone wolf. He could not rule out further deaths due to the number of injured.<\/p>\n
The suspected attacker’s motive is unclear. Social media and posts online appear to suggest he had been critical of Islam.<\/p>\n
Footage from the scene shows numerous emergency services vehicles attending while people lay on the ground.<\/p>\n
Further footage then emerged of armed police confronting and arresting a man who can be seen lying on the ground by a stationary vehicle.<\/p>\n
Unverified video on social media purports to show a car plunging into the crowd at the market.<\/p>\n
City officials said around 100 police, medics and firefighters, as well as 50 rescue service personnel, rushed to the scene.<\/p>\n
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who traveled to the city on Saturday, described the attack as a “dreadful tragedy” as “so many people were injured and killed with such brutality” in a place that is supposed to be “joyful”.<\/p>\n
Originally from Saudi Arabia, he arrived in Germany in 2006 and in 2016 was recognized as a refugee.
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