A mother and daughter have died days after they suffered severe injuries during a car ramming attack in Munich.
German police said a 37-year-old woman and her 2-year-old daughter died on Saturday from injuries they sustained when a car was driven into a crowd in Munich on Thursday.
They are the first fatalities from the incident.
"Unfortunately, we have to confirm the deaths today of the two-year-old child and her 37-year-old mother," a police spokesman said.
The pair were among at least 36 people injured after a Mini Cooper was rammed into a protest organised by trade union Verdi, attended by an estimated 2,500 strikers and supporters.
An Afghan bodybuilder with thousands of online followers admitted to deliberately driving into a crowd in Munich, prosecutors said on Friday in what authorities believe was an attack motivated by Islamic extremism.
Anti-terror police in Germany are investigating the incident, and the suspect has been named as Farhad Noori by the Munich prosecutor’s office.
The Munich prosecutor’s office told Die Zeit that there were at least "indications of an extremist background”.
The 24-year-old asylum-seeker was arrested by police soon after the incident, which took place a mile away from the venue where the Munich Security Conference is being held on Friday.
"He has admitted that he deliberately drove into the participants of the demonstration," prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann told a news conference. "I'm very cautious about making hasty judgements, but based on everything we know at the moment, I would venture to speak of an Islamist motivation for the crime," she added.
A series of attacks involving immigrants in recent months have pushed migration to the forefront of the campaign for Germany's 23 February election.
US vice president JD Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in the city on the same day as the attack, though at this stage authorities do not believe there is a connection.
Police fired a shot at the car after it weaved between the police vehicles tailing the demonstration and drove into the crowd. Witnesses told of hearing an “engine roar” and “wheels spinning”, with images showing dozens of police surrounding a smashed-up Mini Cooper as debris was strewn across the street in the wake of the crash.
German chancellor Olaf Scholz said “the perpetrator must be punished and he must leave the country”.
Police said on Friday that there is no suggestion that any accomplices were involved in the attack. But they are looking into whether anyone else knew about it.
Speculation around accomplices emerged after an eyewitness reportedly told Bild soon after the crash that two people were seen in the Mini. Only one man was detained at the scene.
In a post on X on Thursday, Munich police said they could not confirm whether more than one person was involved.
“As reported, the person secured is the driver of the car,” police said. “There is speculation about other people involved. Based on our current knowledge, we cannot confirm this.”
