As the incident at Magdeburg's Christmas market was taking place, the city's football team were playing a fixture away against Fortuna Dusseldorf at the Merkur Spiel-Arena. During the game, the news was relayed to the stadium via a video wall.

The German city of Magdeburg was in mourning Saturday over a car-ramming attack that brought death and carnage to its Christmas market, but the sorrow gave way to anger when

A nine-year-old child is among the five people killed in the car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the central German city of Magdeburg, prosecutors said during a press conference on Saturday afternoon.