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A police officer works at the scene where a car drove into a crowd in the southern German city of Munich on February 13, 2025 leaving several people injured, police said. Agence France-Presse

MUNICH — A two-year-old girl and her mother died Saturday from injuries suffered in a car-ramming attack two days earlier in the German city of Munich that left 37 others injured, police said.

“Unfortunately, we have to confirm the deaths today of the two-year-old child and her 37-year-old mother,” police spokesman Ludwig Waldinger told AFP.

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Police said the asylum seeker, identified by German media as Farhad N., may have had Islamist extremist motives for the attack.

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After the incident, the suspect uttered the words “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) to police officers and also prayed, prosecutor Gabriele Tilmann said on Friday.

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The carnage came shortly before Germans head to the polls for a February 23 election where immigration is a key issue following a spate of attacks blamed on migrants.

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Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a message on X that he was “deeply shocked and saddened by the death of the small child and the woman who succumbed to their injuries after the attack in Munich”.

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“It is unimaginable what the relatives are going through. My deepest condolences go out to them. The country mourns with them.”

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