After the attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market, the official side has not fully confirmed the number of possible fatalities reported by the media. Saxony-Anhalt’s Minister-President Reiner Haseloff (CDU) spoke on the scene of two fatalities, citing emergency forces, who had previously reported a minimum of eleven dead.

In any case, there were dozens of injured. A man around 50 years old from Saudi-Arabia is believed to have been the driver of the vehicle that crashed into the crowd on the Christmas market in the evening. Haseloff mentioned that the man had been practicing as a doctor in Saxony-Anhalt for years.