A suspected attacker drove a car into a Christmas market in Germany on Friday evening, killing at least two people, the Deutsche Presse-Agentur news agency reported.

Media reports about the number of casualties in Magdeburg, a city in eastern Germany, varied in the immediate aftermath. The Christmas market, a popular kind of holiday destination in many German cities, was closed after the incident, Magdeburg police said on X.

The suspect is a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who moved to Germany in 2006, Tamara Zieschang, the interior minister for the state of Saxony-Anhalt, said at a news conference. He has been practicing medicine in Bernburg, about 23 miles (36 kilometers) south of Magdeburg, she said. “As things stand, he is a lone perpetrator, so that as far as we know there is no further danger to the city,” Saxony-Anhalt’s governor, Reiner Haseloff, told reporters. Fifteen of the injured were were hurt very seriously, according to government officials and the city...

Police on Friday evening held a suspect after an apparent attack on a Christmas festival in the central German city of Megdeburg. A car was driven into a crowd at the market, killing at least two people and injuring dozens of others, according to Deutsche Welle, a state-owned public German broadcaster. Do we know anything about the suspect? Reiner Haseloff, the premier for the state of Saxony Anhalt, described the suspect as a Saudi national who police believe acted alone, according to Deutsche Welle. Megdeburg Police later on Friday urged...

It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties. Police said they had closed off the area. A car has been driven into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in the central German city of Magdeburg. It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties. Police have taken the driver into custody, according to local government sources cited by Germany's dpa news agency. Authorities have closed the Christmas market and emergency services are at the scene. This is a breaking news story. Refresh your browser for...

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At least one person was killed and 68 injured Friday in a suspected attack on a Christmas market in the eastern Germany city of Magdeburg, local authorities said.

"At the current time emergency services confirm the following numbers: one dead, 15 seriously injured, 37 moderately injured, 16 lightly injured," said city authorities in a Facebook post, adding that "a car drove into a crowd of people at the Christmas market at high speed".

A car attack on Friday at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, left at least two people dead and dozens injured in what authorities have described as a terror incident. Emergency services reported that between 60 to 80 individuals may have sustained injuries when a dark BMW ploughed through the crowd near the town hall. Eyewitness accounts cited by local media described the vehicle driving directly into the packed market. The suspected driver, identified as a Saudi citizen by unnamed government officials in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, was arrested...

A car that drove through a crowded outdoor Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, Friday night killed at least one person and injured at least 50 more, authorities said. Multiple reports say at least one person was killed and numerous people were hurt when the suspect deliberately plowed through the festive vendor booths. Officials are calling it a suspected attack. Who is the suspect? The driver of the car was arrested. He not known to German authorities as an Islamic extremist, dpa reported, citing unidentified security officials. He is believed to...

A car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market Friday evening in the central German city of Magdeburg, killing at least one person, according to media reports. Police in Magdeburg, a city of 240,000 about two hours west of Berlin by car, have not yet released official details about whether the incident was a terrorist attack. German news sources reported that the driver of the car was taken into custody, while AFP News Agency, citing emergency services, said that between 60 and 80 people were injured. Magdeburg Police said...