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Two people die from their injuries after Munich car-ramming attack

Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, and Volker Wissing, Minister of Justice, lay down flowers at the site where a car crashed into a demonstration two days before, 15 February 2025.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, and Volker Wissing, Minister of Justice, lay down flowers at the site where a car crashed into a demonstration two days before, 15 February 2025. Copyright  Ebrahim Noroozi/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved
Copyright Ebrahim Noroozi/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved
By Orestes Georgiou Daniel with AP
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39 people were injured in the car-ramming attack, which targeted a demonstration by the labour union Ver.di in Munich on Thursday.

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A 2-year-old girl and her mother have died two days after they were injured in the car-ramming attack on a labor union demonstration in Munich, police said on Saturday.

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

39 people were hurt in the attack, and 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.

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 23 February.

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