BERLIN (AP) — The two-year-old girl and her mother died two days after being injured in a car ramming attack on a union demonstration in Munich, police said Saturday.
The 24-year-old Afghanistan who came to Germany as an asylum seeker was arrested shortly after the attack on Thursday. Prosecutors said Friday that he appears to be motivated by Islamic extremists, but there was no evidence that he was involved in the radical network.
Thirty-nine people were injured in the attack, but police said Friday that two of them were extremely seriously injured. On Saturday, the Bavarian state criminal police station said the young girl and her mother, a 37-year-old Munich woman, had died of injuries, the German news agency DPA reported.
It was the fifth in a series of attacks involving immigrants in the past nine months, driving the move to the forefront of the campaign for the February 23rd campaign.
Prime Minister Olaf Scholz visited the scene of Saturday's attack and placed white roses on the improvised memorial.
