Mother and two-year-old daughter die after car ramming attack in Germany

A two-year-old baby and her mother have died after a car was rammed into a group of people in Munich on Thursday.

The 37-year-old mother from Munich and her daughter are the first fatalities from the incident, German police said on Saturday.

At least 36 people were injured in the Thursday morning attack.

The suspect, a 24-year-old Afghan national, was detained at the scene.

He is known as Farhad N and has lived in Munich since he arrived as an unaccompanied minor in 2016, and has no previous convictions.

Read more: What we know about Munich car attack

Prosecutors confirmed he is being investigated for 36 counts of attempted murder, as well as bodily harm and dangerous interference with road traffic.

He appeared to have had an Islamic extremist motive, they said, though there was no evidence he was connected to any radical network.

The attack fuelled yet more debate in Germany about migration, a top concern among voters as they prepare to vote next week for a new government.

It happened just hours before international leaders touched down in the southern German city for the annual
Munich Security Conference.

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