The death toll in a car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has risen to five people, and more than 200 have been injured, many of them seriously, state premier Reiner Haseloff said on Saturday.
The suspected driver was initially identified as a doctor from Saudi Arabia who lived in Germany, was detained, Reiner Haseloff, premier of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, said Friday. He said the ...
Taleb A, a 50-year-old Saudi doctor arrested in connection with the car attack on a crowd of revellers at a Christmas market in Germany's Magdeburg, had secured a permanent residence permit for Germany in 2006.
Among the dead was also a toddler along with an adult and the officials told Associated Press that the death toll may rise as some of the victims got seriously injured.
A least one person has been killed and dozens injured in the incident, according to German public broadcaster MDR
“It is unimaginable that this is happening in Germany,” Reiner Haseloff, the prime minister of Saxony-Anhalt state, of which Magdenburg is the capital, said during a visit to the scene with other officials on Saturday, confirming the latest tol
The death toll in the attack on a busy Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has risen to five, with more than 200 people injured, the state governor said Saturday.
Police scour scene of fatal German Christmas market attack as death toll continues to rise -
Authorities in the German city of Magdeburg say at least two people were killed and dozens were injured after a car plowed into a busy Christmas market what officials called a deliberate attack
Saudi physician suspected in Germany' scar ramming attack on Christmas market was an atheist who held strong anti-Islam views and was angry with Germany's migrant and asylum policy, officials said on Saturday.
German Interior Nancy Faeser on Sunday promised a quick investigation into the Magdeburg Christmas market attack, saying "every stone" was being turned over. "The investigations by the security authorities are in full swing,