A Saudi doctor has been arrested after a driver ploughed a car into a busy Christmas market in eastern Germany, killing at least two. Police arrested the suspect, who has been identified as Taleb A., a 50-year-old doctor who sympathised with Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party, according to local media.

At least two people are dead and dozens more injured after a car ploughed through a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, as officials believe the incident was a deliberate attack

Magdeburg is a city of about 240,000 people, west of Berlin, that serves as Saxony-Anhalt's capital. Friday's attack came eight years after an Islamic extremist drove a truck into crowded Christmas market in Berlin, killing 13 people and injuring many others. The attacker was killed days later in a shootout in Italy.