a spokesman for Saxony-Anhalt's Criminal Police Office explained. Declines seen in many states North Rhine Westphalia (NRW), Germany's most populous state, reported dramatic reductions. By mid-December there had been 40 such attacks in NRW, down from 143 ...

More than 200 people were injured, many seriously, when a Saudi doctor intentionally drove a black BMW into a busy Magdeburg, Germany, Christmas market Friday evening.

German news agency dpa is reporting that a car has driven into a group of people at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg.

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 40 kilometers (25 miles ...

A car has been driven into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in eastern Germany. German news agency dpa has reported that the vehicle was driven into a group of people at the market in Magdeburg on Friday.

At least two people have been killed, according to the head of the state government. Police have taken a Saudi national into custody.

Among the dead was also a toddler along with an adult and the officials told Associated Press that the death toll may rise as some of the victims got seriously injured.

The death toll in the attack on a busy Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has risen to five, the state governor said Saturday. Saxony-Anhalt Gov. Reiner Haseloff also said that more than 200 people in total were injured,

This photo shows a street cordoned off near a Christmas market where a car rammed into a crowd in Magdeburg, Germany, Dec. 21, 2024. A car plowed through a Christmas market in the central German city of Magdeburg on Friday evening,

Of the injured, 15 are reported to be in critical condition, raising concerns that the death toll may increase; driver arrested

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised to investigate "in depth" an attack Friday at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, in which a car that plowed into the crowds there left five dead, including a child,