Two dead and dozens injured, the assailant has been arrested what has been known so far for the attack in Germany

Tens of people were injured and at least two people, including a small child, were killed Friday after a car crashed a mob at a Christmas market in Germany's eastern town of Magdeburg, in what local officials are describing as a terrorist attack.

At least 68 other people were injured, including 15 who are in critical condition, according to the city leadership.

In the attack, a black BMW went straight into the crowd on the Christmas market, speeding up 400 meters in the direction of the municipality, according to eyewitnesses The Guardian, broadcast The Express.

Videos posted on social networks showed a dark car walking in the crowd at great speed. Some media showed the videos in their reports, but the authenticity of the images has not yet been officially confirmed.

Emergency workers were seen treating field victims on the market, surrounded by blood. In the country were made up of improvised tents. Witnesses reported hearing cries and screams. The operator of a food stand on the market described the scenes as “recall war”.

“This is a terrible event, especially now in the days leading up to Christmas”, said Saxon-Anhalt leader Reiner Hasseloff, who was on his way to Magdeburg.

The car manager was immediately arrested and later identified as Taleb A., a 50-year-old doctor from Saudi Arabia. Hasseloff said the man had lived in Germany since 2006. The suspect, a psychiatrist and psychotherapy consultant, was recognized as a refugee in 2016.

Some German media pointed to past posts of the suspect in the social media, in which he reportedly expressed critical views of Islam and even warned of <x0 crimes” of an Islamisation of Germany.

Image from the site of the event showed the suspected author lying on the ground, with his head up, near a heavily damaged black car. A few yards away from him was running a gun pulled towards him as passersby look shocked.

“Sic stay things, he is the only author, so there is no further danger to the town of”, Haseloff said.

The suspect rented the car just prior to the attack, according to reports citing a security source and not known to authorities that there was an Islamic cerfund.

A woman who spoke of the regional newspaper Mitteldeutsche Zeitung said that the author “had deliberately introduced himself to the Christmas market market, decorated with scenes from”, where many families had gathered with young children. She told the newspaper she had just managed to get herself and her kid off the road where the car was coming.

After the incident, police cleared an area around the vehicle to investigate any possible explosive devices, local broadcaster reported MDR. Later, he quoted police as saying that such a device had not been found.

A police operation was also under way in the town of Bernburg, south of Magdeburg, where the suspect is believed to have lived, local newspaper Mitteldeutsche Zeitung reported.

Police were not immediately available to comment on reports of a suspicious article or operation in Bernburg.

“Reports from Magdeburg raise the worst fears”, said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, on the X social media platform. He will travel to Magdeburg on Saturday along with Interior Minister Nancy Fyser, according to their spokespersons.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier wrote that the “welcome of a peaceful Christmas was suddenly interrupted” in the attack, but warned that “sof the terrible work has still been clarified”.

Alice Weidel, leader of the AfD, who focused on jihadist attacks on her campaign against immigrants, wrote to X: “When will this madness stop?”