Germany Christmas Market Attack: In a tragic incident in Germany, at least two people lost their lives while 68 others are injured as a car ploughed through the outdoor Christmas market in Magdeburg on Friday. The authorities believe it to be an attack and have arrested the prime suspect of the deadly car rampage, named Tamara Zieschang, a Saudi Arabian man.
Several footages have emerged on social media showing the dramatic moment when the police finally captured the man behind the wheels of the SUV. The suspected attacker sped through the crowd in a car, leaving a path of destruction and bloodshed. The driver was arrested shortly after the car crashed into the market at around 7 p.m., when it was crowded with holiday shoppers preparing for the weekend.
Verified footage shared by German news agency dpa showed the suspect being arrested on a walkway. A police officer pointed a handgun at the man and ordered him to stay down. Other officers quickly arrived and detained him.
Police arresting the Attacker 50-year-old Saudi doctor in Magdeburg, Germany — Chembiyan (@ChembiyanM)
Authorities in Magdeburg, 130 km southwest of Berlin, confirmed two deaths, including a young child, and 68 injuries in a tragic incident. Officials said 15 of the injured are in serious condition, and more fatalities cannot be ruled out, as reported by AFP.
The suspect is a 50-year-old Saudi national who moved to Germany in 2006, according to Tamara Zieschang, Saxony-Anhalt’s interior minister. Speaking at a news conference, she stated that the man has been practicing medicine in Bernburg, located 36 kilometers south of Magdeburg.
“As things stand, he is a lone perpetrator, so that as far as we know there is no further danger to the city,” Saxony-Anhalt’s governor, Reiner Haseloff, told reporters.
The suspected attack in Magdeburg, a city of around 240,000 people west of Berlin, happened eight years after a similar incident where an Islamic extremist drove a truck into a busy Christmas market in Berlin, killing 13 people and injuring many more. The attacker was killed in a shootout in Italy days later.
(Based on agency inputs)
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