German Christmas market victims together with nine-year-old baby and 4 adults, officers reveal as homicide and tried homicide fees are being ready
Four adults and a nine-year-old child have been killed in a horrifying attack on a Christmas market in Germany.
Officials confirmed that at least five people have died after a car rammed into a massive crowd of shoppers at a Christmas market in Magdeburg at around 7pm on December 20 with a dark BMW.
At least 205 people have also been injured during the horrific massacre, while the suspect, a 50-year-old Saudi doctor, has also been arrested.
Prosecutor Horst Nopens said he is under investigation on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and bodily harm. He is currently being questioned.
The country has been in mourning following Friday’s attack, with locals placing candles and tributes at the site where the car drove into a crowd.
The motive in the attack remains unclear at this stage, although officials said the suspect’s anger over the treatment of Saudi Arabian refugees in Germany may have been a factor.
Firefighters patrol the scene of the crash on Friday after a car rammed into a massive crowd of shoppers at a Christmas market in Magdeburg at around 7pm
Debris and closed stalls are seen on Saturday at the site of a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg
Officials held a press conference on Saturday where they revealed four adults and a nine-year-old child were killed in a horrifying attack
People stand next to candles and tributes near the site where a car drove into a crowd at a Magdeburg Christmas market
The country has been in mourning following Friday’s attack, with locals placing candles and tributes at the site where a car drove into a crowd
Plush toys, candles and floral tributes lie near the site where a car drove into a crowd at a Magdeburg Christmas market
Officials told a press conference on Saturday that 205 people were injured in the attack, 41 of which have been hurt badly.
City official Ronni Krug said he didn’t have further information on the adults who were killed.
The suspect is currently being interviewed by police and it is believed he was working alone, he added.
Neurosurgeon Mahmoud Elenbaby said some 80 patients were brought to Magdeburg’s university hospital on Friday night.
Several German media outlets identified the suspect as Taleb A., withholding his last name in line with privacy laws, and reported that he was a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy.
Mourners lit candles and placed flowers outside a church near the market on the cold and gloomy day. Several people stopped and cried.
A Berlin church choir whose members witnessed a previous Christmas market attack in 2016 sang Amazing Grace, a hymn about God’s mercy, offering their prayers and solidarity with the victims.
