Total of 68 People Injured in Magdeburg Car Attack, German Authorities Say

© AP Photo / Matthias SchraderGerman federal police officers check cars at the Austrian-German border crossing point in Kiefersfelden, Germany, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023
German federal police officers check cars at the Austrian-German border crossing point in Kiefersfelden, Germany, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023 - Sputnik Africa, 1920, 21.12.2024
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Earlier, the German newspaper Bild reported that the number of people injured in the terrorist attack ranged from 60 to 80.
A total of 68 people received injuries of varying degrees of severity when a car rammed into a crowd at a Christmas fair in the German city of Magdeburg, the city administration said in a statement.
"Two killed, 15 seriously injured, 37 moderately injured, 16 lightly injured," the statement said.
On Friday evening, Germany's NTV broadcaster reported that a car had rammed into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg. Saxony-Anhalt Minister-President Reiner Haseloff said two people had died, one of whom was a small child. Police suspect that the driver was a 50-year-old Saudi man acting alone.
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Bild reported, citing law enforcement officers, that no explosives had been found in the car used to ram into the crowd in Magdeburg.
Magdeburg police said the suspect was detained.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, French President Emmanuel Macron, the prime ministers of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary and the UK, and the Saudi Foreign Ministry issued statements expressing condolences and solidarity with the German people after the attack.
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