People leave candles and floral tributes to the victims near the site where a car drove into a crowd at a Magdeburg Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany December 21, 2024.
Germany in mourning as death toll in market attack rises to 5, more than 200 wounded | CBC News LoadedGermans on Saturday mourned both the victims and their shaken sense of security after a man intentionally drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers, killing at least five people, including a small child, and injuring at least 200 others.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that nearly 40 of them "are so seriously injured that we must be very worried about them." "Every human life that has fallen victim to this attack is a terrible tragedy and one human life too many." German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, arrives outside St. John's Church in Magdeburg to lay some flowers.
It prompted several other German towns to cancel their weekend Christmas markets as a precaution and out of solidarity with Magdeburg's loss. Berlin kept its markets open but has increased its police presence at them.Andrea Reis, who had been at the market on Friday, returned on Saturday with her daughter Julia to lay a candle by the church overlooking the site. She said that had it not been for a matter of moments, they may have been in the car's path.
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