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Germany says Christmas market attack toll rises to 5 dead, over 200 injured

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A car-ramming attack on a German Christmas market killed five people and wounded more than 200, Saxony-Anhalt state premier Reiner Haseloff said on Saturday, updating the toll.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who was with him to pay respects in the eastern city of Magdeburg, voiced special concern for some 40 critically injured people and condemned the “terrible catastrophe”.

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