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.

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

Thousands of people in Magdeburg formed a human chain on Monday to remember the victims of the attack on a Christmas market in the central German city, as the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) held a rival rally.

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.

A car attack at Magdeburg's Christmas market in Germany left two dead and 60 injured. The suspected assailant, a Saudi doctor residing in Germany, was arrested on-site. The attack has disturbed the city and reignited memories of past market attacks.

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.