Death toll in apparent Christmas market attack in Germany rises to 5

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Germans on Saturday mourn victims after a doctor intentionally drove into a busy holiday market, killing at least five people, including a small child, and wounding 200 more.

Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.WATCH: The death toll has risen to at least five a day after a man drove his car through a crowd at a busy Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany on Friday. Though a police investigation is ongoing, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said “the perpetrator was clearly Islamophobic.

Magdeburg marked the tragedy Saturday with the tolling church bells at 7:04 p.m., the exact time of the attack in the city of roughly 240,000 people. “There is no more peaceful and cheerful place than a Christmas market,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz said. “What a terrible act it is to injure and kill so many people there with such brutality.”A blanket lies on a Christmas Market, where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening, in Magdeburg, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024.

Friday’s attack came eight years after an Islamic extremist drove a truck into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, killing 13 people and injuring many others. The attacker was killed days later in a shootout in Italy.

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