At least five people, including a 9-year-old child, were killed in the attack, which took place in the eastern city of Magdeburg. The authorities are still seeking a motive.

Police say the driver is under arrest after plowing into the crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing at least five people - including a 9-year-old - and injuring 200 others.

Germany's interior minister said on Monday it was still too soon to jump to any conclusions about the man suspected of driving his car into a Christmas market in Magdeburg and killing at least five people.

This is a terrible event, particularly now in the days before Christmas," Saxony-Anhalt governor Reiner Haseloff said.

A suspected attacker drove a car into a Christmas market in Germany on Friday evening, killing at least two people, the Deutsche Presse-Agentur news agency reported.