Magdeburg Christmas market latest: At least one dead after car drives into crowd in ‘attack’ in Germany
A car has been driven into a crowd at a Christmas market in eastern Germany.
German news agency dpa has reported that the vehicle was driven into a group of people at the market in Magdeburg on Friday.
A least 11 people have been killed and dozens injured in the incident, according to German newspaper Bild.
A further 60 to 80 people may have been injured, according to the AFP news agency, citing a local rescue service.
The driver of the car was arrested, dpa reported.
Regional government spokesperson Matthias Schuppe and city spokesperson Michael Reif said they suspected it was an attack.
“This is a terrible event, particularly now in the days before Christmas,” Saxony-Anhalt Governor Reiner Haseloff said.
Haseloff told dpa that he was on his way to Magdeburg but couldn’t immediately give any information on victims or what was behind the incident.
Magdeburg, which is west of Berlin, is the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt and has about 240,000 inhabitants.
An “extensive police operation” is underway and the market was closed, according to local authorities.
