Prosecutors say the death toll in the attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg last month has risen to six as a woman succumbed to her injuries.

The horror arrived on the evening of December 20th, when a BMW ploughed through the Christmas market in Magdeburg, a city in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, killing a child and four women and leaving hundreds injured.

Officials say four women and a 9-year-old boy were killed when a Saudi doctor drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday.

At least five people are now known to have been killed in the vehicle-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday.

At least five people have been killed, and 200 injured, after car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday in what authorities called a deliberate attack.

The suspect, identified by local media as 50-year-old Taleb A., was arrested after plowing a black BMW into a Christmas market.

A woman has died from injuries sustained after a man drove a car into a German Christmas market last month, bringing the total death toll from the attack to six. The 52-year-old died in hospital two weeks after the car ploughed into the packed market in Magdeburg,

A woman who was injured during the Dec. 20 attack at a German Christmas market died at a hospital on Monday, increasing the death toll to six.