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A car drove into a crowded German Christmas market ahead of Christmas, causing dozens of casualties.
Germany is in a somber mood over another terrorist attack targeting the Christmas market following 2016.
Reporter Yoon Hyun-sook reports.
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an outdoor Christmas market with spectacular lights
Suddenly, a car rushes at a high speed through the store stands.
Surprised people scream and the excited market ahead of Christmas becomes a chaos.
A vehicle rushed to the Christmas market in Magdeburg, the capital of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, around 7 p.m. local time on the 20th.
At least two people, including adults and children, were killed and dozens were injured.
The vehicle sped over 400 meters through a narrow passageway.
[Doreen Steffen / Magdeburg Citizen: We are shaking. I'm worried about people. It's a grim day for Magdeburg.]
Police closed the scene in case the vehicle was equipped with an explosive device and used helicopters to transport the injured.
The driver arrested at the scene was a 50-year-old man from Saudi Arabia, a doctor who settled in Germany in 2006.Authorities in
believe the suspect committed the crime alone using a rental car and presumed it was a deliberate attack.
[Liner Haselov / Governor of Saxony-Anhalt: Additional data is being collected and interrogated. At the moment, it appears to be a lone offender and there is no more danger to the city because we have arrested the suspect.]
In Germany, 13 people were killed and more than 60 injured in 2016 when a truck rushed into the Christmas market in downtown Berlin.
The suspect, identified as an Islamic extremist, was killed four days later after a gunfight with police in Italy.
I'm YTN's Yoon Hyunsuk.
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