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Death Toll From Terrorist Attack in Germany's Magdeburg Rises to 5

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The death toll from the terrorist attack in the German city of Magdeburg, when a car rammed into a crowd at a Christmas market, has risen to 5, the minister-president of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, said, confirming media reports about number of casualties.
He added that more than 200 people had suffered injuries.
"We have five people killed and more than 200 injured, with many seriously injured," Haseloff told a press conference at the scene of the attack.
On Friday evening, Germany's media reported that a car had rammed into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg. Saxony-Anhalt Minister-President Reiner Haseloff said earlier on Saturday that two people had died, one of whom was a small child. Police suspect that the driver was a 50-year-old Saudi man acting alone.
The local newspaper reported that the suspect had been recognized as a refugee in July 2016 and had a residence permit in Germany.
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