Death toll in attack on Christmas market in Germany rises to 5 and more than 200 injured

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A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday evening.

There were still no answers Saturday as to what motivated the man to drive his black BMW into a crowd in the eastern German city.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.

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.A view of the cordoned-off Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Dec. 20, 2024.

Germany has suffered a string of extremist attacks in recent years, including a knife attack that killed three people and wounded eight at a festival in the western city of Solingen in August.

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