At least four people have now died after a car ploughed into a busy Christmas market in eastern Germany, local media has reported.According to German newspaper Bild, the number of those seriously injured has also risen to 41.

The Christmas market is located the city of Magdeburg, the capital of Saxony-Anhalt, where people had gathered to celebrate the Christmas holidays. One of the dead was a young chi

Scholz was joined by numerous national and regional politicians, all dressed in black, in the eastern city of Magdeburg, where they then laid flowers outside the main church