'Next to me was a dead body': German market attack survivors describe carnage

Shocked survivors recounted the moment a car attack on Friday turned a glittering Christmas market in eastern Germany into a scene of death and carnage. "We didn't hear the car," a 32-year-old woman named Nadine told Bild daily, saying she had come from western Germany to visit the famed market in the old town square. No extremist group claimed responsibility for the attack, but supporters of the Islamic State group celebrated online with messages such as "Merry Christmas, unbeliever", reported the SITE Intelligence Group. The local Volkstimme newspaper said reports from the scene indicated the attacker "drove in a zig-zag motion across the market -- clearly in an attempt to hit as many people as possible". One woman summed up the stunned mood when she told Die Welt daily: "I don't know in what world we're living in, where someone would use such a peaceful event to spread terror."