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Watch live as mourners lay flowers for the victims German Attack on the Christmas market on Sunday (December 22).
Five people have now died after a car plowed into a busy Christmas market in the east Germany on Friday (December 20), with another 200 injured, authorities confirmed.
Among the dead was a nine-year-old child, who was confirmed to have been killed on Friday after the attack around 7 p.m. According to German media, 41 people were seriously injured, 90 were seriously injured, and another 80 suffered minor injuries.
The police arrested a A 50-year-old Saudi doctor identified by local media as Taleb A, who had lived in Germany since 2006 and allegedly sympathized with Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party.
The attack drew global condemnation from world leaders, including British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who said he was “appalled” by the “horrific attack”.