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. On the pavement, red candles flicker, tributes laid for the victims.

Germany's Office for Migration and Refugees said it had received a tip-off last year about the man accused of attacking a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg, killing five. The warning was received via social media channels late in the summer of 2023,

Seven Indian nationals were among over 200 injured in the car-ramming attack on Friday (21 December) in Germany, in which five people were killed. The attacker, identified as a Saudi national, rammed his car into a busy Christmas market Friday in Magdeburg, Germany.