Update: Suspect in custody is a doctor from Saudi Arabia who moved to Germany in 2006 | DW News

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Germany is in shock after a driver plowed his car into a busy Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg, killing at least two people and injuring more than 60. One of the dead is a young child. Authorities have arrested the suspect. He’s a 50-year-old doctor from Saudi Arabia who moved to Germany in 2006. He had expressed strong anti-Islam views online and praised the far-right AfD political party.

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