The suspected perpetrator involved in the fatal incident at the Magdeburg Christmas market is expected to lose his medical licence, the regional administration for the state of Saxony-Anhalt announced on Friday.

A video of a police operation in Berlin has been misleadingly linked online to the Dec. 20 car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the central German city of Magdeburg in posts suggesting that Muslims were targeted by authorities following the attack.

A car ploughed into a crowd of shoppers at a busy German Christmas market on Friday evening, killing two people and injuring up to 80 in a suspected deliberate attack. An extensive police operation is underway following the attack at the market in the German city of Magdeburg that happened at around 7 p.m. local time.

How did the attack unfold? Unverified footage on social media showed a black BMW travelling at high speeds through the pedestrian walkway between Christmas stalls. Eyewitnesses de

Officials say four women and a 9-year-old boy were killed when a man drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in the German city of Magdeburg

Magdeburg's Christmas market is a sad sight. This should have been the busiest weekend of the season, but the whole area has been cordoned off and all the stands are shut. Police are the only people walking around the boarded-up mulled wine and gingerbread stalls.

All surviving victims of the Magdeburg Christmas market attack are in a stable condition after being taken to hospital mostly with broken bones and internal bleeding, a local hospital official has told a German newspaper.