A driver who rammed a car into a crowded Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg, killing at least five people and injuring more than 200, has been identified by authorities as a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian citizen who had lived in Germany for more than a decade and worked as a doctor.

German officials said that the death toll from a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in eastern Germany had risen to five people, with more than 200 injured, including dozens of them seriously. The suspected driver,