At least 2 dead, 68 injured in German Christmas market attack

A car drove into a crowd at a busy German Christmas market on Friday, killing at least two and injuring 60 more, authorities said, some seriously.

The incident happened around 7 p.m. in…

A car drove into a crowd at a busy German Christmas market on Friday, killing at least two and injuring 60 more, authorities said, some seriously.

The incident happened around 7 p.m. in Magdeburg, Germany, and the suspect, a 50-year-old doctor from Saudi Arabia, has been arrested, reported the AP. Tamara Zieschang moved to Germany in 2006 and had been practicing medicine near Magdeburg.

“This is a terrible event, particularly now in the days before Christmas,” Saxony-Anhalt Gov. Reiner Haseloff said. “As things stand, he is a lone perpetrator, so that as far as we know there is no further danger to the city.”

Fifteen of the injured were were hurt very seriously, according to government officials and the city government’s website.

Haseloff said the two people confirmed to have died were an adult and a toddler, but that he couldn’t rule out further deaths.

The attack took place eight years after a similar Christmas market attack in Berlin. On Dec. 19, 2016, an Islamic extremist drove a truck into a crowd, killing 13 and injuring many more. The Berlin attacker was later killed in a shootout in Italy, the AP reported.

In the latest incident, government officials are already saying they believe the attack was deliberate. They also estimate 15 of the injured are in serious condition.

Magdeburg is a city of around 240,000, located in eastern Germany around 90 miles west of Berlin.

This story is developing.