Mother and daughter die from injuries in Munich car ramming attack
A woman and her two-year-old daughter have died from injuries sustained in the Munich car ramming attack.
The 37-year-old mother and her daughter had been critically wounded in the attack, which happened when a Mini Cooper ploughed into a crowd of people taking part in a trade union rally on Thursday. At least 37 others, including children, were injured.
Ludwig Waldinger, a police spokesman, told AFP: 'Unfortunately, we have to confirm the deaths today of the two-year-old child and her 37-year-old mother.'
The suspect is an Afghan man, named as 24-year-old Farhad N by German media reports, who had his asylum application rejected six years ago.
During the attack, which authorities said they were treating as a religiously motivated incident, he was shot at and arrested by police.
Thursday's attack brought security issues back into focus 10 days before Germans head to the polls for the federal election on Feb 23.
Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, visited the scene of the attack on Saturday and laid a white rose at an improvised memorial. He condemned the 'awful' attack and vowed to deport the attacker immediately.
It happened the day before the beginning of the Munich Security Conference, which welcomed world leaders including JD Vance, the US vice-president, and Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president.
Bavaria's state interior ministry said the attack did not appear to be related to the conference and that the victims at the Verdi trade union demonstration had been chosen at random.
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It was the sixth attack to be committed by a foreign citizen in Germany in the past 10 months.
In December, six people were killed in an attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg. Last month, a toddler and adult were killed in a knife attack in the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg. Immigrants were arrested over both attacks.
Conservative Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to be Germany's next chancellor, said safety would be his top priority, posting on X: 'We will enforce law and order. Everyone must feel safe in our country again. Something has to change in Germany.'
The Right-wing AfD, in second place in polls, also seized on the incident, with Alice Weidel, the co-leader, writing online: 'Should this go on forever? Migration turnaround now!'
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