Firefighters walk through a cordoned-off area near a Christmas Market, after a car drove into a crowd in Magdeburg, Germany, Saturday, December 21, 2024.
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Saudi Arabia condemned the ramming attack at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday (December 20, 2024),evening, the Gulf country’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday (December 21, 2024).

Police have arrested a suspect in the attack, which killed at least two people. A German official described the suspect as a doctor from Saudi Arabia who was acting alone.

The government expressed “solidarity with the German people and the families of the victims”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on social media platform X, and “affirmed its rejection of violence”.

Saudi Arabia’s statement made no mention of the suspect.