Car plows into Christmas market in Germany, killing at least 5 and injuring 200

MUNICH — German authorities said on Saturday that the death toll from a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in eastern Germany had risen to five people, with more than 200 injured, dozens of them critically.

MUNICH — German authorities said on Saturday that the death toll from a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in eastern Germany had risen to five people, with more than 200 injured, dozens of them critically.

The car plowed 1200 feet into a crowd in a narrow alley in Magdeburg, a city of about 240,000 people west of Berlin, where shoppers had gathered Friday night.

“This is a terrible, tragic event,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told reporters from Magdeburg, adding that nearly 40 people “are so seriously injured we must be very worried about them.”

“We must understand the perpetrator and his motives to respond with the necessary criminal and other consequences,” he added.

The suspected driver, 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 suspect acted alone, and there was no ongoing threat to the public.

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