Shock in Magdeburg: Auto rams Christmas market - two dead, dozens of injuries!

Shock in Magdeburg: Auto rams Christmas market - two dead, dozens of injuries!

shock in Magdeburg! A happy Christmas market became the scene of a terrible crime on Friday evening. A car raced into the crowd with full force and left at least two dead and up to 68 injured. The contemplative pre-Christmas period was brutally interrupted when the people in the city of Saxony-Anhalt were in a festive mood.

The police speaks of an intentional attack! The driver, a 50-year-old doctor from Saudi Arabia, was arrested immediately. He has lived in Germany since 2006 and has now committed a terrible act that shakes the hearts of the people in Magdeburg. "This is a terrible event, especially in the days before Christmas," said the Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, and thus expressed the horror of the entire nation.

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The numbers are terrifying: there is also a child under the victims! The city government reported that 15 of the injuries are in a critical condition. Another 37 people suffered moderate injuries, while 16 were slightly injured. The people who had gathered at the Christmas market that evening were haunted by an unexpected nightmare.

The incident occurred around 7 p.m. local time when the vehicle raced into the crowd at high speed. Witnesses report a chaos that developed in a matter of seconds. The happy lights of the market were overshadowed by screams and panic.

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz also spoke up and expressed his sympathy: "My thoughts are with the victims and their families. We are at their side and at the side of the people in Magdeburg. My thanks go to the committed rescue workers in these worrying hours."

The investigation is in full swing while the city deals with the consequences of this tragic incident. People wonder: how could something like this happen in a time of peace and joy? The answers are still uncertain, but the grief and the shock are noticeable everywhere.

The authorities have already announced that further information will follow. The city of Magdeburg is in shock, and the thoughts of the nation are among the victims and their families in this dark hour.