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People attend a memorial service outside the cathedral close to the Christmas market where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening, 21 December, 2024

Video. Magdeburg mourns the five who died in Germany's Christmas attack

Updated: 22/12/2024 - 10:52 GMT+1

A nine-year-old child and four adults were killed and around 200 others injured, 41 of them so badly that authorities fear the death toll could rise.

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