Source: Financial Times [UK]
“A car ploughed into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday evening, killing at least two and injuring dozens more in what local officials said they believed was a deliberate attack. The prime minister of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, said police had detained a man originally from Saudi Arabia in connection with the incident, which he said had claimed two lives and injured at least 60 people, 15 of them severely, according to city authorities. Haseloff said that the suspected perpetrator, believed to be 50, had lived in Germany since 2006 and worked in Magdeburg as a doctor, and appeared to be acting alone.” (12/21/24)