A car has been driven into a crowd at a Christmas market in the eastern German town of Magdeburg, with at least one person killed and several injured.
The suspected driver of the car had been arrested, broadcaster MDR and other local media said on Friday (local time), citing a local government official.
Between “60 and 80 people” were injured in the incident on Friday (local time), a spokesperson for the local rescue service told the AFP news agency.
According to the emergency service, several people were “severely” injured in the crash.
Many police officers and emergency services were on site, and the market manager had told people to leave the city centre, MDR said.
Witnesses told the broadcaster that the car drove straight into the crowd at the market, in the direction of the town hall.
A video published by newspaper Bild showed people trying to help what appeared to be multiple injured victims.
Magdeburg, which is west of Berlin, is the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt and has about 240,000 residents.
“This is a terrible event, especially now in the days before Christmas,” head of Saxony-Anhalt state government Reiner Haseloff told MDR, adding that he was on his way to Magdeburg.
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