A tragic attack at Magdeburg's Christmas market has claimed six lives, as a 52-year-old woman's death brings renewed grief to Germany. A 50-year-old Saudi Arabian psychiatrist, with ties to far-right ideology,

The death toll from the Magdeburg Christmas market attack has increased to six after a 52-year-old woman died from her injuries

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The suspect, originally from Saudi Arabia, shared Islamophobic messages online and criticised German refugee policies.

The suspect in the car-ramming incident at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg had appeared in seven investigative proceedings in the two years prior to the attack, Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported on Saturday.

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.

A woman who was injured during the Dec. 20 attack at a German Christmas market died at a hospital on Monday, increasing the death toll to six.

A 52-year-old woman has died in hospital from injuries sustained in last month's Christmas market attack in Magdeburg, Germany, bringing the death toll to six, prosecutors have announced. The victim succumbed to injuries received when a car was deliberately driven through crowds of shoppers at the festive market on December 20.