At least two killed, 60 injured after car ploughs into Magdeburg Christmas market

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The two people confirmed dead are an adult and a toddler, but officials said additional deaths couldn't be ruled out because 15 people were seriously injured.

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00:00At least two people have been killed and 60 others injured after a car drove into a crowd

00:07at a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg.

00:11Authorities are calling it a deliberate attack.

00:14The two people confirmed dead are an adult and a child, but officials say the death toll

00:19could rise as 15 people were seriously injured.

00:23The driver was arrested at the scene shortly after the car barreled into the market at

00:27around 7 p.m. local time when it was teeming with holiday shoppers.

00:32Local officials said the suspect is a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who moved to Germany in 2006.

00:38They also say they believe the suspect was working alone and that there is no further

00:43danger to the city.

00:45German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser will be visiting

00:50the city just 150 kilometers outside of Berlin on Saturday to pay their condolences.

00:56Germany is already at the heart of a political scandal following the collapse of the coalition

01:01government just hours after the U.S. voted in Donald Trump for a second term.

01:06Security is one of the key concerns of Germans and many are starting to wonder if the far

01:12right will capitalize on this incident with the election coming up in just under two months.

01:18Liv Stroud in Magdeburg for Euronews.

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