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Iraqi News
16-02-2025
- Iraqi News
Mother and daughter die days after Munich car ramming
Munich – A two-year-old girl and her mother died Saturday from injuries suffered in a car-ramming attack two days earlier in the German city of Munich that left 37 others injured, police said. 'Unfortunately, we have to confirm the deaths today of the two-year-old child and her 37-year-old mother,' police spokesman Ludwig Waldinger told AFP. A 24-year-old Afghan man was arrested on suspicion of deliberately driving a car into a trade union demonstration on Thursday. Police said the asylum seeker, identified by German media as Farhad N., may have had Islamist extremist motives for the attack. After the incident, the suspect uttered the words 'Allahu Akbar' (God is greatest) to police officers and also prayed, prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann said on Friday. The carnage came shortly before Germans head to the polls for a February 23 election where immigration is a key issue following a spate of attacks blamed on migrants. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a message on X that he was 'deeply shocked and saddened by the death of the small child and the woman who succumbed to their injuries after the attack in Munich'. 'It is unimaginable what the relatives are going through. My deepest condolences go out to them. The country mourns with them.'
Al Jazeera
15-02-2025
- Al Jazeera
Mother, daughter die after being injured in Munich car ramming
A two-year-old girl and her mother have died from injuries suffered in a car-ramming attack earlier this week in the German city of Munich that left 37 others injured. 'Unfortunately, we have to confirm the deaths today of the two-year-old child and her 37-year-old mother,' police spokesman Ludwig Waldinger told the AFP news agency. An Afghan man was arrested on suspicion of deliberately driving a car into a trade union demonstration on Thursday. According to prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann, the 24-year-old Afghan national admitted to having deliberately driven a white Mini Cooper into a labour union demonstration in the Bavarian capital on Thursday. Tilmann said the motive remained unclear, and there was no evidence to suggest the suspect was affiliated with any 'Islamist' or 'terrorist' organisations. She added that there was no indication of any accomplices. The man was in Germany legally and had no previous convictions.
Yahoo
15-02-2025
- Yahoo
Mother and daughter die days after Munich car ramming
A two-year-old girl and her mother died Saturday from injuries suffered in a car-ramming attack two days earlier in the German city of Munich that left 37 others injured, police said. "Unfortunately, we have to confirm the deaths today of the two-year-old child and her 37-year-old mother," police spokesman Ludwig Waldinger told AFP. A 24-year-old Afghan man was arrested on suspicion of deliberately driving a car into a trade union demonstration on Thursday. Police said the asylum seeker, identified by German media as Farhad N., may have had Islamist extremist motives for the attack. After the incident, the suspect uttered the words "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) to police officers and also prayed, prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann said on Friday. The carnage came shortly before Germans head to the polls for a February 23 election where immigration is a key issue following a spate of attacks blamed on migrants. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a message on X that he was "deeply shocked and saddened by the death of the small child and the woman who succumbed to their injuries after the attack in Munich". "It is unimaginable what the relatives are going through. My deepest condolences go out to them. The country mourns with them." ylf/fz/jxb
Yahoo
15-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
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. Credit: X/@Gatzenfridolin 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!' Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Yahoo
15-02-2025
- Yahoo
Mother and child die from injuries after Munich car attack
A mother, 37, and her two-year-old daughter have died, two days after a car was driven into a crowd of people in the Germany city of Munich, police have said. At least 37 people were injured in the attack, a number of them seriously. The driver was a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, police said, identified in local media as Farhad N, who was arrested at the scene. Prosecutors have said the suspect appeared to have a religious motivation. "Unfortunately, we have to confirm the deaths today of the two-year-old child and her 37-year-old mother," police spokesman Ludwig Waldinger told news agency AFP on Saturday. Speaking at a news conference on Friday, Munich public prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann said the suspect had said "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) as he was detained, which she suggested meant he "may have had an Islamist motivation. What we know about suspected car attack in Munich Car ramming comes as migration at forefront of German elections Thursday's car-ramming in the heart of Munich came 10 days before Germans go the polls in federal elections overshadowed by a series of earlier attacks carried out by immigrants. Two of the alleged attackers had come from Afghanistan. The suspect arrived in Germany in 2016 and, although his application for asylum was turned down, he was allowed to stay in Germany. He had a valid residence and work permit. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. You can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on X to get the latest alerts.
