Magdeburg: Tributes paid as five dead and 200 injured after car ploughs into crowd at German Christmas market - Social media videos show casualties lying on the ground surrounded by a heavy police pre

Four women and a 9-year-old boy were killed and 200 people were injured when a man drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in the German city of Magdeburg — an attack that has left Germans mourning the victims and with a shaken sense of security.

A man has been arrested by the German police after a deadly car ramming attack killed five and injured over sixty at a Christmas market in Magdeburg. Video footage of the incident showed a speeding vehicle ramming through a crowd of revellers.