BERLIN, December 21. /TASS/. The Prime Minister of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt has confirmed the deaths of five people in a car ram attack at a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg.
“We sadly mourn the deaths of five people; more than 200 were injured,” Reiner Haseloff told reporters, adding that many of the injured were in critical condition.
A BMW driver drove his car into a Christmas market in the center of Magdeburg on Friday evening. Local authorities described the incident as a terrorist attack.