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What we know about the deadly Christmas market attack in Germany

Dec. 22, 2024 11:45 AM EST

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — 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. ...

German authorities received tipoffs last year about the suspect in Christmas market attack

Dec. 22, 2024 10:19 AM EST

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — German authorities said they received tipoffs last year about the suspect in a car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg as more details emerged on Sunday about the five people killed. Authorities have identified the suspect as a Saudi doctor who...

Germans mourn the 5 killed and 200 injured in the apparent attack on a Christmas market

Dec. 21, 2024 18:46 PM EST

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — Germans on Saturday mourned the victims of an apparent attack in which authorities say a doctor drove into a busy outdoor Christmas market, killing five people, injuring 200 others and shaking the public’s sense of security at what would otherwise be a time of joy. ...

PHOTO COLLECTION: Germany Christmas Market

Dec. 21, 2024 17:52 PM EST
This is a collection of photos chosen by AP photo editors.

Officials say a 9-year-old child is among the 5 killed in the Christmas market attack in Germany

Dec. 21, 2024 10:39 AM EST
MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — Officials say a 9-year-old child is among the 5 killed in the Christmas market attack in Germany.

What we know about the suspect behind the German Christmas market attack

Dec. 21, 2024 09:17 AM EST

CAIRO (AP) — Authorities have not formally named the suspect in the car ramming in the city of Magdeburg that killed at least five people and wounded hundreds, saying only that he is a Saudi doctor who has lived in Germany for nearly two decades and that he acted alone. Local media...

German Christmas market ramming is the latest attack to use vehicles as deadly weapons

Dec. 21, 2024 08:59 AM EST

LONDON (AP) — A car-ramming at a Christmas market in Germany, which police are treating as an attack, is the latest in a grim series of events in which vehicles have been used as deadly weapons. There have been a spate of such attacks over the past decade, some committed by groups...

At least 2 dead and 60 hurt after a car drives into a German Christmas market in a suspected attack

Dec. 20, 2024 23:56 PM EST

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 60 others in what authorities called a deliberate attack. The driver was arrested at the scene shortly...

VW wage deal for 120,000 German workers avoids layoffs, plant closures

Dec. 20, 2024 14:39 PM EST

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen and its employee representatives said Friday they have reached a wage deal for 120,000 German workers that avoids plant closings and bars involuntary layoffs through 2030. The agreement includes provisions for VW to shed more than 35,000 jobs through early...

Scholz dismisses Musk's assertion that only a far-right party can 'save' Germany

Dec. 20, 2024 09:49 AM EST

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday dismissed an assertion by Elon Musk that only a far-right party can “save Germany,” but said that freedom of opinion "also goes for multibillionaires.” Germany is expected to vote in an early election on Feb. 23 after Scholz's...