Driver kills at least two after ramming into crowd at German Christmas market

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A driver rammed into a large crowd of revellers  at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing at least two people, including a young child on Friday (Dec 20) evening.  Saxony-Anhalt premier Reiner Haseloff said at least 60 people were injured.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/4u7ak9tu  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A driver rammed into a large crowd of revelers at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany,

00:10killing at least two people, including a young child, on Friday evening.

00:15Saxony-Anhalt Premier Rainer Haselhoff said at least 60 people were injured.

00:21Police have arrested the suspected attacker, a Saudi Arabian doctor believed to have acted

00:56as a medical assistant, and last but not least he was a doctor in Bergen-Uhr.

01:02According to our current information, he acted as a single offender,

01:07there are no other offenders.

01:11We are only a few hours away from the terrible crime,

01:15and that's why I'm glad that we were at least able to narrow it down to the extent

01:19that we were able to take care of it, and that we can now leave everything to independent justice

01:24and that we can now leave everything to independent justice and that we can now leave everything to independent justice

01:29Police confirmed a large-scale operation at the market, where crowds had gathered ahead of Christmas,

01:34but declined to provide casualty numbers.

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