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A driver plowed a car into a group of people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg in eastern Germany on Friday, reports the German news agency dpa.
Officials said they suspected it was an attack and that people were injured, but it was not immediately clear how many had been injured.
The driver of the car was arrested, the agency said, citing unidentified government officials in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. Regional government spokesman Matthias Schuppe and city spokesman Michael Reif said they suspected it was an attack.
Reif said there were “numerous injuries” but did not give an exact figure.
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“The pictures are terrible,” he said. “My information is that a car drove into the Christmas market visitors, but I still can’t say from which direction and how far.”
Footage from the scene of a cordoned off part of the market showed rubbish on the ground.
“This is a terrible event, especially now in the days before Christmas,” said Saxony-Anhalt Governor Reiner Haseloff. Haseloff told dpa that he was on his way to Magdeburg, but could not immediately provide information about victims or what was behind the incident.
Magdeburg, which lies west of Berlin, is the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt and has about 240,000 inhabitants.
The suspected attack came a day after the eighth anniversary of an attack on a Christmas market in Berlin. On December 19, 2016, an Islamic extremist attacker plowed through a crowd of Christmas market-goers with a truck, killing 13 people and injuring dozens more. The attacker was killed days later in a shooting in Italy.
The German Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser had said at the end of last month that there were no concrete indications of a danger for Christmas markets this year, but that it was wise to be vigilant.
by Taboola
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