Prosecutors say the death toll in the attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg last month has risen to six as a woman succumbed to her injuries.

The 52-year-old died in hospital two weeks after the car ploughed into the packed market in Magdeburg, prosecutors said. At least 299 people were injured in the attack on 20 December, according to the latest figures from the interior ministry of Saxony-Anhalt.

At least five people are now known to have been killed in the vehicle-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday.

The suspect, identified by local media as 50-year-old Taleb A., was arrested after plowing a black BMW into a Christmas market.

At least five people are now known to have been killed in the vehicle-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday.

Officials say four women and a 9-year-old boy were killed when a Saudi doctor drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday.

A 52-year-old woman has died in hospital from injuries sustained in last month's Christmas market attack in Magdeburg, Germany, bringing the death toll to six, prosecutors have announced. The victim succumbed to injuries received when a car was deliberately driven through crowds of shoppers at the festive market on December 20.