German law enforcement and counterterrorism officials said they prevented a terrorist attack at a German Christmas market in Bavaria, Germany. 

Five men were believed to be involved in a plan to drive a car into a crowd of people at a market in the Dingolfing-Landau area of Bavaria. The suspects were apprehended on Friday evening and believed to have an “Islamist motive,” BBC reported. The name of the Christmas market that was to be the target of the terrorist attack has not yet been released.

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