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Car slams into crowd at Christmas market in Germany in suspected attack; at least 2 killed, dozens injured, officials say

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Police say the driver is under arrest after plowing into the crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing at least 2 people and injuring dozens.

At least two people were killed and dozens were injured after a car plowed into a busy Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday. Authorities said it appeared to be a deliberate attack.The driver of the car was arrested, Magdeburg police confirmed.The state premier of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, said at a news conference at the scene in Magdeburg that the suspect was a 50-year-old doctor who arrived in Germany in 2006.

Haseloff told dpa that he was on his way to Magdeburg but couldn't immediately give any information on victims or what was behind the incident.Chancellor OIaf Scholz posted on X: 'My thoughts are with the victims and their relatives. We stand beside them and beside the people of Magdeburg.'Magdeburg, which is west of Berlin, is the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt and has about 240,000 residents.The suspected attack came eight years after an attack on a Christmas market in Berlin.

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