Death toll rises to five after car driven into Christmas market in Germany

Authorities identified the suspect as a 50-year-old who has been living in Germany for nearly two decades and practising medicine there

Policemen patrol a Christmas market where a car drove into a crowd (Michael Probst/AP)

The death toll in the attack on a busy Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has risen to five.

Saxony-Anhalt governor Reiner Haseloff also said that more than 200 people in total were injured, many seriously, when a Saudi doctor intentionally drove a black BMW into the market on Friday evening.