Mourners are laying flowers near the scene of the deadly Christmas market attack as investigators puzzle over the motive of the suspect.

A theatre in Magdeburg is to hold a memorial concert on Thursday for victims of the attack on the central German city's Christmas market The traditional Christmas concert at the Magedeburg Theatre is to be changed to reflect on last Friday's attack,

The suspected perpetrator of a deadly ramming at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday is a 50-year-old Saudi refugee from a Shiite family who declared himself an atheist and "anti-Islam".The ramming came eight years to the day after a similar attack on a Christmas market in Berlin that killed 13 people.