Shocking eyewitnesses who were at the Christmas market in Magdeburg at the time of the attack.

A woman who was with her boyfriend at the Christmas market in Magdeburg at the time of the attack told local media that she saw the car used in the attack speeding towards them.

“He hit him and left my arms. It was terrible,” 32-year-old Nadine told Bild newspaper.

The friend has leg and head injuries.

THE Lars Frohmüllera reporter for public broadcaster MDR who arrived at Magdeburg’s Christmas market shortly after the attack, told the BBC of what he saw.

“There were ambulances everywhere, there were police, there were a lot of firefighters. It was a real chaotic situation. We saw blood on the street, we saw people sitting next to each other and they had gold and silver leaves around them. And we saw many doctors trying to warm people up and help them with their injuries. It’s a big shock. It is a great shock to every people here in Magdeburg and to every person in Saxony-Anhalt.”

So far two people – a young child and an adult – are known to have been killed in the attack. About 68 people were injured, of which 15 are seriously hospitalized.

Local officials told a news conference that fellow citizens provided vital first aid to those injured in the moments before emergency services arrived.

The video shows the moment the suspect was arrested, with officers pointing their guns at him and yelling at him not to move as he lay on the floor. The video shows more officers arriving at the scene and moving towards the suspect before being told to stay back.

The suspect was arrested and identified as a Saudi national who arrived in Germany in 2006 and worked as a doctor. It is not clear at this time what his motive was and the man has no known links to Islamic extremism.

This is not the first time Germany has been hit by an attack on a Christmas market. In 2016, an Islamic extremist drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people.

Last month, German Interior Minister Nancy Fesser spoke of the need for “greater vigilance” especially in popular markets.