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André Gleißner named as nine-year-old killed in Magdeburg Christmas market attack | BBC News


A local fire brigade has paid tribute to a nine-year-old killed in an attack on a German Christmas market.

André Gleißner died after a car drove into a crowd of shoppers at the market in Magdeburg on Friday evening, according to the Schöppenstedt fire department.

Four women, aged 45, 52, 67 and 75, also died in the attack.
Authorities are holding a suspect identified as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen on counts of murder, attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm.

He is a 50-year-old Saudi-born psychiatrist who lives in Bernburg, around 40km (25 miles) south of Magdeburg.

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