After a car crashed into a crowd at a Christmas market on Friday, authorities in an eastern German city said a “extensive” police operation was in progress.
Up to 80 individuals were hurt in the event, according to news agency AFP, which cited rescue personnel on the ground. Whether any had been killed was unknown.
“The Magdeburg Christmas market is currently the scene of intense police operations. “The city center’s Christmas market is closed,” the police posted on X.
The incident took place in Magdeburg, the capital of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, west of Berlin.
As a precaution and in reaction to the event in Germany, police in New York City have stepped up security at holiday markets, a senior NYPD official told NBC News on Friday.
More resources will be dispatched to various festive markets and prominent sites throughout the city. According to the official, there has been no specific local threat, but there have been threats to some markets abroad.
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