A 2-year-old lady and her mom have died after Munich automotive assault

A 2-year-old lady and her mom have died after they had been injured within the car-ramming assault on a labor union demonstration in Munich, police mentioned Saturday.

A 24-year-old Afghan man who got here to Germany as an asylum-seeker was arrested instantly after the assault on Thursday. Prosecutors mentioned Friday that he seems to have had an Islamic extremist motive, however there was no proof that he was concerned with any radical community. A broken Mini Cooper and different particles may very well be seen on the scene. 

Thirty-nine individuals had been damage within the assault, and police mentioned on Friday that two of these had been very critically injured. The town’s mayor, Dieter Reiter, mentioned on Friday that kids had been amongst these injured within the “deeply stunning” assault. 

On Saturday, Bavaria’s state prison police workplace mentioned the younger lady and her mom, a 37-year-old girl from Munich, had died of their accidents, the German information company dpa reported. No different particulars had been shared. 

Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited the scene of the assault on Saturday and laid a white rose at an improvised memorial.

It was the fifth in a sequence of assaults involving immigrants over the previous 9 months, together with a Christmas market assault that left 5 lifeless and a whole lot injured. The incidents have pushed migration to the forefront of the marketing campaign for Germany’s election on Feb. 23.

Friday additionally marked the start of the three-day Munich Safety Convention, an annual gathering of worldwide overseas and safety coverage officers. U.S. Vice President JD Vance was among the many attendees and had touched down within the metropolis simply hours earlier than the assault. Police mentioned there was no hyperlink between Vance’s presence and the incident.