A two-year-old girl and her mother died on Saturday from injuries suffered in the car-ramming attack in Munich on Thursday 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,” a police spokesperson told AFP.
An Afghan man was arrested on suspicion of deliberately driving a car into a trade union demonstration on Thursday.
Police said the 24-year-old 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 attack came shortly before Germans head to the polls for a 23 February election where immigration is a key issue, following several attacks blamed on migrants.
Source: www.theguardian.com