Death toll from German Christmas market attack rises to 6

The violence shocked Germany and the city ... The suspected attack came eight years after an attack on a Christmas market in Berlin. On Dec. 19, 2016, an Islamic extremist plowed through a ...
“The Christmas market as a place of peace has been destroyed.” Christopher F. Schuetze is a reporter for The Times based in Berlin, covering politics, society and culture in Germany, Austria ...
Magdeburg, with a population of 240,000, is about a two-hour drive west of Berlin. Christmas markets are a cornerstone of Germany’s holiday season, with decorative stalls selling mulled wine ...
A short video of the incident posted on X and geolocated to the city of Magdeburg in eastern Germany showed a vehicle ...
The violence shocked all of Germany, prompting several other German towns to cancel their weekend Christmas markets as a precaution, and out of solidarity with Magdeburg’s loss. Berlin kept ...
A Berlin church choir whose members witnessed ... A view of the cordoned-off Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Dec. 20, 2024. (Heiko Rebsch/picture alliance via Getty Images) There ...