German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits the site of a tragic car-ramming attack at a Christmas market, mourning the loss of five lives and calling for national unity in the face of terror.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser are due in Magdeburg on Saturday, hours after at least two people were killed, including a small child, and at least 60 were injured after a man drove a car into a Christmas market.

Five people have been killed in the attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Reiner Haseloff, state premier of Saxony-Anhalt, tells reporters. More than 200 people were injured. Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz is about to speak in Magdeburg, after the attack that has left at least four people dead and over 200 injured.