Car attack sees mum and daughter, 2, die days after vehicle hit into crowd

A two-year-old girl and her mother have died days after they both sustained serious injuries in a car attack in Munich.

The girl and her mum, 37, were among 36 people injured after a man drove into crowds in Thursday (February 13), police have confirmed.

A 24-year-old Afghan man who came to Germany as an asylum-seeker was arrested immediately after the attack. Prosecutors said Friday (February 14) that he appears to have had an Islamic extremist motive, but there was no evidence that he was involved with any radical network.

Police said on Friday that two of those were very seriously injured. On Saturday, Bavaria's state criminal police office said the young girl and her mother, a 37-year-old woman from Munich, had died of their injuries, German news agency dpa reported.

Police said on X: "Police said in a series of posts on X: "The suspect is a 24-year-old man of Afghan nationality. He drove a car into a gathering in the Seidlstrasse area from behind. According to current information, 28 people were injured, some seriously. During the arrest we fired a shot at the vehicle."

As reported by The Mirror, German premier Chancellor Olaf Scholz said: "An Afghan perpetrator has severely injured people, and that is not something that we can tolerate or accept. This perpetrator cannot hope for any leniency. He must be punished and he must leave the country. The government will be starting flights back to Afghanistan despite the lack of diplomatic ties."

It was the fifth in a series of attacks involving immigrants over the past nine months that have pushed migration to the forefront of the campaign for Germany's election on February 23.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited the scene of the attack on today (February 15) and laid a white rose at an improvised memorial.