Death toll in Magdeburg terrorist attack rises to six

In the city of Magdeburg in Germany, a car drove into a crowd of visitors to a Christmas fair. As a result of the incident, another woman died in hospital. Thus, the total number of dead reached six. The newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reported on January 6.

"A 52-year-old woman died of her injuries in hospital, a spokesman for the Naumburg prosecutor's office told the German press agency. She died as a result of the attack," the publication stated.

In total, about 300 people were injured in the terrorist attack.

About the collision of the car on the crowd at the Christmas fair in the city of Magdeburg in Germany became known on December 20, 2024. The Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt Rainer Erich Haseloff ("Christian Democratic Union") reported that at least two people, including a child, were killed in Magdeburg. Later it became known about the deaths of three more people.

The representative of the German government in the state of Saxony-Anhalt Matthias Schuppe called a terrorist attack hit a car on a crowd of people at the Christmas market. Later it became known about the detention of a suspect in a hit-and-run in Magdeburg. In the press service of the local police specified that the man could act alone.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and the injured. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Polish President Andrzej Duda and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer also expressed their condolences.