Number of deaths could continue to rise, official warns, after car ploughs into crowd at Christmas market...

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The number of dead could continue to rise today after a car ploughed into the crowd at a German Christmas market.

At least two people including a child died and 68 more have been injured in the incident.The car, thought to have been a dark-coloured BMW, reportedly crashed through barriers protecting the market around 7:04pm and ploughed into shoppers in the eastern German city of Magdeburg.Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff said the suspect, who has been arrested, is a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian doctor who came to Germany in 2006.

Sixty eight people were hurt in the incident, which they are treating as an attack, and two people, including a young child, have been confirmed dead.At least 15 people were seriously injured and 37 have injuries of medium severity, and 16 are lightly injured, but Haseloff said he expected the number of fatalities to increase overnight given the severity of the attack.Government spokesperson Matthias Schuppe was quoted by public broadcaster MDR describing the incident as an "attack".

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