A driver rammed a car into a large crowd of revelers at a Christmas market in central Germany on Friday evening, killing at least two people and injuring more than 60 before he was arrested, authorities said.
One of the dead was a young child, said Reiner Haseloff, premier of the state of Saxony-Anhalt. The incident took place in Magdeburg, the state capital, which is 150 kilometers (93 miles) west of Berlin.
“It is a catastrophe for the city of Magdeburg, for the state and for Germany in general,” Haseloff said, adding that the death toll could rise given the severity of some of the injuries.