At least five people were killed and more than 200 injured after a car plowed into a crowd at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday, local authorities said.

At least five people are now known to have been killed in the vehicle-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday, the Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff told journalists on Saturday.

A Saudi doctor has been arrested after a driver ploughed a car into a busy Christmas market in eastern Germany, killing at least two. Police arrested the suspect, who has been identified as Taleb A., a 50-year-old doctor who sympathised with Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party, according to local media.