A driver rammed a car into a large crowd of revelers at a Christmas market in central Germany on Friday evening, killing at least two people and injuring more than 60 before he was arrested, authorities said.One of the dead was a young child, said Reiner Haseloff, premier of the state of Saxony-Anhalt. The incident took place in Magdeburg, the state capital, which is 150 kilometers west of Berlin.
Police were not immediately available to comment on the reports of a suspicious item or the operation in Bernburg.German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who sent his thoughts to those affected in a post on social media platform X, is expected to visit the scene on Saturday together with Interior Minister Nancy Faeser.As news of the attack broke, Elon Musk, the billionaire allied with US President-elect Donald Trump, criticized Scholz and called on him to resign.