Germany latest: Official warns number killed may rise after dozens injured in Christmas market attack

Germany latest: Official warns number killed may rise after dozens injured in Christmas market attack

"If it was a terrorist act, and I use the word 'if' very deliberately... then it will have succeeded in the sense that there'll be a reaction or perhaps overreaction by the state and by the authorities as we lead up to Christmas, a very important part of the year for many people. "This market, it would have been the last Friday before Christmas, and they're a huge part of German culture.

In 2016, Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker who pledged allegiance to Islamic State, rammed a truck into a crowd in the capital, killing 12 people and injuring dozens of others.He first came to the country in 2006 and has a permanent residency, practicing medicine in Bernburg, 25 miles south of Magdeburg, officials said.A Saudi source told Reuters the kingdom had warned German authorities about the suspect, who the source said had posted extremist views on his personal X account.

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