A car plowed into a crowd of people shopping at a busy Christmas market in eastern Germany Friday — killing at least two, including a small child, in what officials are saying was a terrorist attack by a Saudi doctor.
Horrifying video showed the driver ripping through the narrow pathways between the outdoor shopping village stalls shortly after 7 p.m. local time in the city of Magdeburg, where hundreds of people were gathered.
The driver was immediately arrested after carrying out what authorities are calling a terror attack, German news agency dpa reported.
The suspect is a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who first came to Germany in 2006, Saxony-Anhalt’s interior minister, Tamara Zieschang said.
He had been practicing medicine in Bernburg, about 23 miles south of Magdeburg.
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