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Magdeburg in shock as it tries to make sense of the senseless after Christmas market attack

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There is a deep sense of shock in Magdeburg.

The streets around what should be a bustling Christmas market are quiet.

The wooden huts boarded up.

A place designed to be a winter wonderland is now the scene of a nightmare.

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Police tape flutters in the wind in front of children’s rides.

Blue medical gloves and foil blankets line the street between the stalls – debris of the disaster which unfolded last night when a man drove his car into the crowd.

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It took just three minutes for police to catch the suspect after they received the first call.

But those three minutes changed hundreds of lives.

The city has never experienced an attack on this scale.

Today people laid flowers, keeping their loved ones close as they tried to make sense of the senseless.

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