Taleb al-Abdulmohsen

BBC News
Nine-year-old among five killed in attack on German Christmas market
By Jacqueline Howard
December 20, 2025

A nine-year-old child and four adults have been killed after a car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg.

More than 200 people were injured – at least 41 critically – in the attack on Friday evening.

A black BMW SUV ploughed 400 metres through the crowded market in an attack that lasted about three minutes.

The suspect has been named in local media as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old Saudi citizen who arrived in Germany in 2006 and had worked as a doctor…

Al-Abdulmohsen is thought to have driven into the market through an entry point which was reserved for emergency vehicles, police said.

The suspect is a psychiatrist who lived in Bernburg, around 40km (25 miles) south of Magdeburg.

Originally from Saudi Arabia, al-Abdulmohsen arrived in Germany in 2006 and in 2016 was recognised as a refugee…