Agency Report –
A funeral service was held in northern Germany on Saturday for a 9-year-old boy killed in the car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg.
Police said around 300 mourners attended the ceremony in Wolfenbüttel, in the state of Lower Saxony, 80 kilometres west of Magdeburg.
The street in front of the church was cordoned off, with emergency counsellors and volunteers from the fire brigade on site.
The urn was due to be buried in the cemetery in the nearby village of Warle.
On December 20, a 50-year-old man ploughed a car into crowds attending a Christmas market in Magdeburg, killing the boy and five women aged between 45 and 75. At least 299 injuries were reported.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited the eastern city on Thursday to express his sympathy and gratitude to emergency workers.
