AT LEAST 20 people are injured after a car smashed into a Christmas market in Germany, according to reports.
Video shared on social media shows the moment the vehicle ploughs into crowds of people in Magdeburg, with people also seen lying on the ground.
Emergency personnel are at the scene
A man crouches on the floor
A car crashed into a Christmas market
A man is understood to have been arrested at the scene, reports Germany’s DPA news agency.
The number of casualties is unclear, with some reports that at least one person has died.
The car crashed through the barriers protecting the market and drove into shoppers.
Witnesses have described “panicked scenes” before the market was subsequently closed.
Matthias Schuppe, a government spokesman in the province of Saxony-Anholt, said it was an “attack” in comments to local media.
A spokesperson for local police said: “We do not yet know exactly what happened.”
Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) is on his way to Magdeburg.
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