Magdeburg Germany: Christmas market horror as two dead when car ploughs into crowd in suspected terror event

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Officials have confirmed that at least two people have been killed, including a two-year-old child, after an alleged terrorist plough his car through a packed Christmas market in Germany.

Reports from local media say the injury toll is around 70 and the death toll is expected to climb as at least a dozen of those injured are in critical condition.

Police have cordoned off the entire area as investigations ramp up and security is on high alart after a terrorism warning was given by local politicians.

The car used is being treated as high risk as it may have been wired with explosives, reports from local media have confirmed.

President of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, said police had arrested a doctor from Saudi Arabia.

“This is a terrible event, particularly now in the days before Christmas,” Mr Haseloff said.

“We will do all in our power to take care of those injured and their families who are in shock.

German police said they are investigating the incident as terrorist attack.

Horrific images are emerging of the car ploughing through the packed Christmas market in Germany with at least one person dead and over 60 seriously injured.

The eastern German town of Magdeburg was holding it’s annual Christmas market when a car sped into the crowd and mowed down bystanders for almost 100m in a tightly packed thoroughfare.

“We estimate there are at least 20 ambulances here, a lot of firefighters, and I can see the police helicopter circling in the sky,” local media reported.

Eyewitnesses said the car drove straight into the crowd, in the direction of the town hall.

Eight years ago, a truck driven by Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist links, crashed into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring dozens of others.