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CHRISTMAS PANIC
One person killed & ‘several injured’ after car ‘drives straight into crowd’ at German Christmas Market as shoppers flee
Revellers were thrown to the ground
ONE person is reportedly dead and dozens are injured after a car drove into a crowd at a German Christmas market.
The motor ploughed into revellers celebrating Christmas in Magdeburg throwing people around the festive area.
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A man is understood to have been arrested at the scene, reports Germany's DPA news agency.
Some 60 to 80 people may have been injured, according to AFP.
The car crashed through the barriers protecting the market and drove into shoppers.
Witnesses have described "panicked scenes" before the market was subsequently closed.
Matthias Schuppe, a government spokesman in the province of Saxony-Anholt, said it was an “attack” in comments to local media.
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A spokesperson for local police said: “We do not yet know exactly what happened.”
Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff of Saxony-Anhalt is on his way to Magdeburg.
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