Mother and child die of injuries when attacking a Munich car

The 37-year-old mother and her two-year-old daughter have died of injuries suffered from cars attack on Thursday in the German city of Munich, police say.

At least 37 people were injured after a car was driven into a crowd of people at a union rally.

The driver was a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, police reported in local media as Farhad N. He was arrested at the scene, and prosecutors say he admitted that he had committed the attack. There seems to be a religious motivation, staff said.

The mother and the child were among those taken to a hospital with serious injuries after the attack.

“Unfortunately, we must confirm the death of a two-year-old child today and her 37-year-old mother,” police spokesman Ludwig Woldinger told AFP news agency on Saturday.

Car Camery returned the security problems in the focus week before the federal election was held in Germany.

A series of attacks were carried out in Munich by immigrants, with two of the alleged attackers coming from Afghanistan.

The attack also happened on the eve of the Munich Security Conference, which began on Friday.

After arriving in the city on Friday, US Vice President JD Vance expressed his condolences to the victims of the attack.

The German authorities said the suspect had arrived in the country in 2016, and although his asylum application was refused, he was allowed to remain in Germany as he was facing risks to be deported back to Afghanistan. He had a valid residence and work permit.

He had no previous criminal record and police said there was no evidence to contact a jihadist group. He seems to have acted alone, police say.

On Friday, police said the suspect had told employees during an interrogation that he had deliberately passed his car Mini Cooper into the crowd.

Munich Prosecutor Gabriele Tilman told reporters that the suspect had told “Allahu Akbar”, God is the most in Arabic when he was detained. She suggested that he “may have had an Islamist motivation.”

The campaign surrounding Germany’s election on February 23 has been drawn to a migration debate for weeks. The vote was brought by the collapse of the coalition government of the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz last year.

A number of incidents of violence related to migrants in the last year have led to increased support for the far -right AFD party.

In December, six people were killed and at least 299 wounded after a man Drives a car on a German Christmas marketS

The suspect was a 50-year-old asylum seeker of Saudi Arabia, who was a candid critic of Islam.

And in January a A two -year -old child and a passerby who tried to help were killed After a group of children were stabbed in a park in the Bavarian city of Ashafenburg, in an attack that shocked the country.

The suspect is a 28-year-old Afghan asylum seeker.