Emergency services attend an incident at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, Friday Dec. 20, 2024. MAGDEBURG, Germany — A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 60 others in what authorities suspect was an attack.
Fifteen of the injured were were hurt very seriously, according to government officials and the city government’s website. The suspected attack in Magdeburg, a city of about 240,000 people west of Berlin that Saxony-Anhalt’s capital, came eight years after an Islamic extremist drove a truck into crowded Christmas market in Berlin, killing 13 people and injuring many others. The attacker was killed days later in a shootout in Italy.are a huge part of German culture as an annual holiday tradition cherished since the Middle Ages and successfully exported to much of the Western world.
Hours after Friday’s suspected attack, the ring of sirens clashed with the market’s festive ornaments, stars and leafy garlands. 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.”
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