Mother and child die from injuries in Munich car attack
2025-02-16
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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 MunichCar ramming comes as migration at forefront of German electionsThursday'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.
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