Four women and a nine-year-old boy were killed when a man drove a car at high speed through a Christmas market in Germany. Meanwhile, mourners continued to lay flowers and other tributes at the site of the incident, news agency AP reported.

The police in Magdeburg, the central city where the attack took place on Friday evening, stated that the women victims were aged between 45 and 75. Authorities also said that 200 people were injured in the attack. This includes 41 people, whose condition is reported to be serious. The injured are undergoing treatment in several hospitals in Magdeburg, located about 130 kilometres from Berlin, and in surrounding areas, AP reported.