Death Toll Rises to Five, Including a Small Child, in Attack on German Christmas Market

At least 200 others wounded after a 50-year-old Saudi doctor, reportedly an ex-Muslim who opposed the ‘Islamism of Europe,’ drives a black BMW into the crowd.

AP/Ebrahim Noorozi
Mourners outside St. John's Church near a Christmas Market, where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening, at Magdeburg, Germany, December 21, 2024. AP/Ebrahim Noorozi

MAGDEBURG, Germany — Germans on Saturday mourned both the victims and their shaken sense of security after a Saudi doctor intentionally drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers, killing at least five people, including a small child, and wounding at least 200 others.

Authorities arrested a 50-year-old man at the site of the attack at Magdeburg on Friday evening and took him into custody for questioning. He has lived in Germany since 2006, practicing medicine at Bernburg, about 25 miles south of Magdeburg. officials said.

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