At least one person killed and several injured in Germany Christmas market attack
At least one person has been killed and several others injured after a car was driven into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Germany, according to local media reports.
The driver has been arrested following the incident in the city of Magdeburg, which is west of Berlin, News agency dpa said.
Public broadcaster MDR said at least one person had been killed.
Police said the market has been closed.
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All hospitals are preparing for a mass casualty event, a spokesperson for the city of Magdeburg said.
Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said “the news suggests something bad” and that his thoughts are with “the victims and their families”.
On December 19th 2016, a truck driven by Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist links, crashed into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring dozens of others. The attacker was killed days later in a shootout in Milan.
About 60 to 80 people have been injured in the attack, according to the AFP news agency.
The state premier, Reiner Haseloff, who is on his way to the scene, said it is a “terrible event, especially now in the days before Christmas”, broadcaster MDR reported.
Weihnachtsmarkt Magdeburg, the Christmas market where the attack took place, has posted on Instagram warning people to leave the market and allow emergency services to do their work.
Many police officers and emergency services are on site and the market manager had told people to leave the city centre, MDR reported.
Witnesses told the broadcaster that the car drove straight into the crowd at the market in the direction of the town hall.
At least one person killed and several injured in Germany Christmas market attack
At least one person has been killed and several others injured after a car was driven into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Germany, according to local media reports.
The driver has been arrested following the incident in the city of Magdeburg, which is west of Berlin, News agency dpa said.
Public broadcaster MDR said at least one person had been killed.
Police said the market has been closed.
