At least five people are now known to have been killed in the vehicle-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday, the Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff told journalists on Saturday.
Haseloff said that at least 200 more people were injured when a car plowed into festive market-goers in the eastern German city, around 75 miles west of the capital Berlin.
A young child and an adult were among those killed in the attack, according to Haseloff. At least 40 of those injured were so seriously hurt that their lives are still thought to be in danger, according to a Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
A suspect -- a doctor from Saudi Arabia aged around 50 -- was arrested,
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Haseloff said that at least 200 more people were injured when a car plowed into festive market-goers in the eastern German city, around 75 miles west of the capital Berlin.
A young child and an adult were among those killed in the attack, according to Haseloff. At least 40 of those injured were so seriously hurt that their lives are still thought to be in danger, according to a Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
A suspect -- a doctor from Saudi Arabia aged around 50 -- was arrested,
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