Officials say five people have been killed, including a 9-year-old, after a Saudi doctor drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday.

The suspected perpetrator involved in the fatal incident at the Magdeburg Christmas market is expected to lose his medical licence, the regional administration for the state of Saxony-Anhalt announced on Friday.

Police look for a possible motive for the driver who plowed through a busy Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg, as the death toll rises to five.

A car that drove through a crowded outdoor Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, Friday night killed at least two people and injured at least 60 more, authorities said.

A video of a police operation in Berlin has been misleadingly linked online to the Dec. 20 car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the central German city of Magdeburg in posts suggesting that Muslims were targeted by authorities following the attack.