ONE person is reportedly dead and dozens are injured after a car drove into a crowd at a German Christmas market.
The motor ploughed into revellers celebrating in Magdeburg in horror scenes that saw people struck directly and thrown to the ground.A man is understood to have been arrested at the scene, Germany's DPA news agency reported.The car - a dark coloured BMW - crashed through the barriers protecting the market and drove into shoppers just after 7pm.Cop cars have bathed the scene in blue lights as they investigate what happened.
In a initial report, Magdeburg cops said: "Extensive police operations are currently taking place at the Magdeburg Christmas market.CURSED CASTHe said in a post on X: "My thoughts are with the victims and their families. We stand by their side and by the side of the people of Magdeburg.Matthias Schuppe, a government spokesman in the province of Saxony-Anholt, said it was an “attack” in comments to local media.
Eight years ago, a truck driven by a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist links, crashed into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring dozens of others.
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