A car plowed into people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany on Friday, injuring several victims and sending many fleeing in terror, according to police.
Extensive police operations are underway at Magdeburg’s Christmas market, which is now closed, police said.
Magdeburg is about two hours west of Berlin.
Emergency services attend an incident at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany on December 20, 2024.
Dorthe Hein/DPA via AP
Emergency services attend an incident at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany on December 20, 2024.
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This incident happened almost eight years after an attack on another Christmas market in Germany. On December 19, 2016, a man he drove a truck into the crowd In a market in Berlin, 13 were killed and dozens injured.
The car has entered the German Christmas market in droves
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The potential for vehicle attacks is a constant concern for U.S. law enforcement officials, especially before New Year’s Eve. A joint threat assessment of New Year’s Eve in New York’s Times Square noted that the use of carjacking alone or in combination with other tactics “has become a recurring tactic used by Western threat actors.”
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