MAGDEBURG (AP) – Germans mourned the victims of an apparent attack in which authorities say a doctor drove into a busy outdoor market, killing five people, injuring 200 others and shaking the public’s sense of security at what would otherwise be a time of joy.
The alleged attack on Friday evening in Magdeburg, about 130 kilometres west of Berlin, killed a nine-year-old and four adults and injured 41 people badly enough that authorities warned the death toll could rise.
Magdeburg marked the tragedy on Saturday with the tolling of bells at 7.04pm, the exact time of the attack in the city of roughly 240,000 people.
The driver, a 50-year-old doctor who immigrated from Saudi Arabia in 2006, surrendered to police at the scene.
