Nine-year-old among five killed in Germany Christmas market attack
Dec 22, 2024
Magdeburg [Germany], December 22: A nine-year-old child is among the five people killed in the car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the central German city of Magdeburg, prosecutors said during a press conference on Saturday afternoon.
The other four victims are adults, said Horst Walter Nopens, the head of the local public prosecutor's office. Another 200 people were injured, many of them seriously, when a man ploughed a car through the crowd at the Christmas market on Friday evening, he said.
According to the director of the Magdeburg police department, Tom-Oliver Langhans, the man used an escape and rescue route to reach the central square, with the whole incident lasting about three minutes. The suspect, who has been identified as Taleb A according to German privacy laws, was arrested at the scene and is being interrogated in police custody, Nopens said.
Source: Qatar Tribune
