A mother, 37, and her two-year-old daughter have died from injuries they sustained in Thursday’s car attack in the German city of Munich, police say, Report informs via BBC.
At least 37 people were injured when a car was driven into a crowd of people at a trade union rally.
The driver was a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, police said, identified in local media as Farhad N.
He was arrested at the scene and prosecutors say he has admitted to carrying out the attack. He appeared to have a religious motivation, officials said.
The mother and child were among those taken to hospital with serious injuries following the attack.
“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 on Saturday.
The car ramming has brought security issues back into focus the week before federal elections are held in Germany.
A series of attacks have been carried out in Munich by immigrants, with two of the alleged attackers coming from Afghanistan.
